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Particle :: Particle (n.) A subordinate word that is never inflected (a preposition, conjunction, interjection); or a word that can not be used except in compositions; as, ward in backward, ly in lovely..

Backward :: Backward (a.) Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath.

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..

Passado :: Passado (v. i.) A turn or course of a horse backward or forward on the same spot of ground.

Jib :: "Jib (v. i.) To move restively backward or sidewise, -- said of a horse; to balk..

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

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method..

Backhanded :: Backhanded (a.) With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow..

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

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

Radiant :: Radiant (n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate..

Reserve :: Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

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

Plane :: Plane (a.) A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc..

Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

Lapsed :: Lapsed (a.) Having slipped downward, backward, or away; having lost position, privilege, etc., by neglect; -- restricted to figurative uses..

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

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) Toward, or in, past time or events; ago..

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

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