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Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

Seesaw :: Seesaw (v. i.) To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn..

Astern :: Astern (adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern..

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To cause to incline or swing to one side, or backward and forward; to bias; to turn; to bend; warp; as, reeds swayed by wind; judgment swayed by passion..

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

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

Supine :: Supine (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined..

Reflexed :: Reflexed (a.) Bent backward or outward.

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

Strange :: Strange (superl.) Backward; slow.

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

Restem :: Restem (v. t.) To force back against the current; as, to restem their backward course..

Orthognathous :: Orthognathous (a.) Having the front of the head, or the skull, nearly perpendicular, not retreating backwards above the jaws; -- opposed to prognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic..

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

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The act of retrograding, or moving backward..

Ana- :: Ana- () A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew..

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

#NAME? :: -wards (v. i.) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc..

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