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Reflexive :: Reflexive (a.) Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect to something past.

Reserve :: Reserve (n.) Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.

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

Caudad :: Caudad (adv.) Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

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

Retromingent :: Retromingent (a.) Organized so as to discharge the urine backward.

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..

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

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

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

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

Backwards :: Backwards (adv.) From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin..

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.].

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

Reverse :: Reverse (a.) A thrust in fencing made with a backward turn of the hand; a backhanded stroke.

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

Scizorhinal :: Scizorhinal (a.) Having the anterior nostrils prolonged backward in the form of a slit.

Shuttle :: Shuttle (v. i.) To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle..

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

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

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