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

Stane :: Standstill (n.) A standing without moving forward or backward; a stop; a state or rest.

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

Retroflexed :: Retroflexed (a.) Reflexed; bent or turned abruptly backward.

Amphipoda :: Amphipoda (n. pl.) A numerous group of fourteen -- footed Crustacea, inhabiting both fresh and salt water. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward..

Since :: Since (adv.) In the time past, counting backward from the present; before this or now; ago..

Astern :: Astern (adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern..

Retrogradation :: Retrogradation (n.) The act of retrograding, or moving backward..

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

Retrogression :: Retrogression (n.) The act of retrograding, or going backward; retrogradation..

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

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

Refracted :: Refracted (a.) Bent backward angularly, as if half-broken; as, a refracted stem or leaf..

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

Depth :: Depth (n.) The quality of being deep; deepness; perpendicular measurement downward from the surface, or horizontal measurement backward from the front; as, the depth of a river; the depth of a body of troops..

Kick :: Kick (v. i.) To thrust out the foot or feet with violence; to strike out with the foot or feet, as in defense or in bad temper; esp., to strike backward, as a horse does, or to have a habit of doing so. Hence, figuratively: To show ugly resistance, opposition, or hostility; to spurn..

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..

Backward :: Backward (a.) Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child..

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

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