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

Behind :: Behind (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past.

Reserved :: Reserved (a.) Restrained from freedom in words or actions; backward, or cautious, in communicating one's thoughts and feelings; not free or frank..

Retrograde :: Retrograde (a.) Apparently moving backward, and contrary to the succession of the signs, that is, from east to west, as a planet..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses..

Back :: Back (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back..

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

Hippe :: Hippe (n.) A genus of marine decapod crustaceans, which burrow rapidly in the sand by pushing themselves backward; -- called also bait bug. See Illust. under Anomura..

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

Ayenward :: Ayenward (adv.) Backward.

Backward :: Backward (n.) The state behind or past.

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

Backing :: Backing (n.) The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward..

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) By way of reflection; reflexively.

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..

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

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

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..

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

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..

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