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Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

Retrocopulant :: Retrocopulant (a.) Copulating backward, or from behind..

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Perversely; ill.

Reaction :: Reaction (n.) Backward tendency or movement after revolution, reform, or great progress in any direction..

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

Retroact :: Retroact (v. i.) To act backward, or in return; to act in opposition; to be retrospective..

Heterodactylous :: Heterodactylous (a.) Having the first and second toes turned backward, as in the trogons..

Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.

Since :: Since (adv.) In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago..

Click :: Click (n.) A detent, pawl, or ratchet, as that which catches the cogs of a ratchet wheel to prevent backward motion. See Illust. of Ratched wheel..

Retrogressive :: Retrogressive (a.) Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward in seesaw fashion.

Cursor :: Cursor (n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Retrospective :: Retrospective (a.) Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view..

Stern-wheel :: Sternway (n.) The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost..

Breechblock :: Breechblock (n.) The movable piece which closes the breech of a breech-loading firearm, and resists the backward force of the discharge. It is withdrawn for the insertion of a cartridge, and closed again before the gun is fired..

Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.

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