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Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards..

Rock :: Rock (v. i.) To move or be moved backward and forward; to be violently agitated; to reel; to totter.

Ana- :: Ana- () A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew..

Strange :: Strange (superl.) Backward; slow.

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

Sway :: Sway (v. i.) To move or swing from side to side; or backward and forward.

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

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

Reclinant :: Reclinant (a.) Bending or leaning backward.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen..

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

Thar :: Thar (n.) A goatlike animal (Capra Jemlaica) native of the Himalayas. It has small, flattened horns, curved directly backward. The hair of the neck, shoulders, and chest of the male is very long, reaching to the knees. Called also serow, and imo..

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..

Irreversible :: Irreversible (a.) Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine..

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

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Looking behind; looking backward watchfully.

Slack :: Slack (superl.) Remiss; backward; not using due diligence or care; not earnest or eager; as, slack in duty or service..

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

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

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