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

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..

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

Recurvation :: Recurvation (n.) The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bending or flexure backward..

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

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

Reflected :: Reflected (a.) Bent backward or outward; reflexed.

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

Retrogressive :: Retrogressive (a.) Tending to retrograde; going or moving backward; declining from a better to a worse state.

Arrear :: Arrear (adv.) To or in the rear; behind; backwards.

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

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

Barb :: Barb (n.) The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else..

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

Tennis :: Tennis (v. t.) To drive backward and forward, as a ball in playing tennis..

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

Reflexed :: Reflexed (a.) Bent backward or outward.

Backwardly :: Backwardly (adv.) Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

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

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