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Slacken :: Slacken (a.) To be remiss or backward; to be negligent.

Laggard :: Laggard (a.) Slow; sluggish; backward.

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

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..

Swing :: Swing (v. t.) To cause to swing or vibrate; to cause to move backward and forward, or from one side to the other..

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

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

Metacromion :: Metacromion (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.

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

Dentated :: Dentated (a.) Toothed; especially, with the teeth projecting straight out, not pointed either forward or backward; as, a dentate leaf..

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

Revolute :: Revolute (a.) Rolled backward or downward.

Undulate :: Undulate (v. t.) To cause to move backward and forward, or up and down, in undulations or waves; to cause to vibrate..

Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet..

Retroaction :: Retroaction (n.) Action returned, or action backward..

Contango :: Contango (n.) The postponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation.

Anagram :: Anagram (n.) Literally, the letters of a word read backwards, but in its usual wider sense, the change or one word or phrase into another by the transposition of its letters. Thus Galenus becomes angelus; William Noy (attorney-general to Charles I., and a laborious man) may be turned into I moyl in law..

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

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

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