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Replicated :: Replicated (a.) Folded over or backward; folded back upon itself; as, a replicate leaf or petal; a replicate margin of a shell..

Backward :: Backward (v. i.) To keep back; to hinder.

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

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

Chassis :: Chassis (n.) A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See Gun carriage.].

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

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..

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

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..

Retroversion :: Retroversion (n.) A turning or bending backward; also, the state of being turned or bent backward; displacement backwards; as, retroversion of the uterus..

Retrospective :: Retrospective (a.) Looking backward; contemplating things past; -- opposed to prospective; as, a retrospective view..

Backwardness :: Backwardness (n.) The state of being backward.

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

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

Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..

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

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

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

Supine :: Supine (a.) Leaning backward, or inclining with exposure to the sun; sloping; inclined..

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