Definition of backward

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Backward (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season..

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Chassis :: Chassis (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.].
Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair..
Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Tending or moving backward; having a backward course; contrary; as, a retrograde motion; -- opposed to progressive..
Opisthotonos :: Opisthotonos (n.) A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.
Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
Backward :: Backward (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child..
Backward :: Backward (a.) Late or behindhand; as, a backward season..
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward..
Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.
Recoil :: Recoil (v. i.) To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return..
#NAME? :: -wards (v. i.) Suffixes denoting course or direction to; motion or tendency toward; as in backward, or backwards; toward, or towards, etc..
Rock :: Rock (v. t.) To cause to sway backward and forward, as a body resting on a support beneath; as, to rock a cradle or chair; to cause to vibrate; to cause to reel or totter..
Oscillatory :: Oscillatory (a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion..
Backing :: Backing (n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward..
Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.
Stane :: Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
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..
Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin..
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