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Back :: Back (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward..

Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine..

Skimmington :: Skimmington (n.) A word employed in the phrase, To ride Skimmington; that is to ride on a horse with a woman, but behind her, facing backward, carrying a distaff, and accompanied by a procession of jeering neighbors making mock music; a cavalcade in ridicule of a henpecked man. The custom was in vogue in parts of England..

Reciprocate :: Reciprocate (v. i.) To move forward and backward alternately; to recur in vicissitude; to act interchangeably; to alternate.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..

Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To roll or saway backward and forward upon a support; as, to rock in a rocking-chair..

Beard :: Beard (n.) A barb or sharp point of an arrow or other instrument, projecting backward to prevent the head from being easily drawn out..

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

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..

Averse :: Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.

Retromingent :: Retromingent (n.) An animal that discharges its urine backward.

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..

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

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

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

Backward :: Backward (a.) Not advanced in civilization; undeveloped; as, the country or region is in a backward state..

Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

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

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

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