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Retrospect :: Retrospect (v. i.) To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past..

Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..

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

Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..

Behind :: Behind (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind..

Batter :: Batter (v. i.) To slope gently backward.

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

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) Backward development; a passing from a higher to a lower state of organization or structure, as when an animal, approaching maturity, becomes less highly organized than would be expected from its earlier stages or known relationship. Called also retrograde development, and regressive metamorphism..

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind or backward; as, a lion regardant..

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

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

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

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

Oscillatory :: Oscillatory (a.) Moving, or characterized by motion, backward and forward like a pendulum; swinging; oscillating; vibratory; as, oscillatory motion..

Oscillation :: Oscillation (n.) The act of oscillating; a swinging or moving backward and forward, like a pendulum; vibration..

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) The act of inverting, or turning over or backward, or the state of being inverted..

Hyperapophysis :: Hyperapophysis (n.) A lateral and backward-projecting process on the dorsal side of a vertebra.

Aversely :: Aversely (adv.) Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely..

Ayenward :: Ayenward (adv.) Backward.

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

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