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Behind :: Behind (a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill..

Backhouse :: Backhouse (n.) A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

Rhabdom :: Rhabdom (n.) One of numerous minute rodlike structures formed of two or more cells situated behind the retinulae in the compound eyes of insects, etc. See Illust. under Ommatidium..

Abaft :: Abaft (prep.) Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse..

Spot :: Spot (n.) A sciaenoid food fish (Liostomus xanthurus) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. It has a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides. Called also goody, Lafayette, masooka, and old wife..

Fore :: Fore (adv.) Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon..

Distance :: Distance (v. t.) To outstrip by as much as a distance (see Distance, n., 3); to leave far behind; to surpass greatly..

Behindhand :: Behindhand (adv. & a.) In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

Rear :: Rear (n.) Specifically, the part of an army or fleet which comes last, or is stationed behind the rest..

Preponderancy :: Preponderancy (n.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

Back :: Back (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.

Wart Hog :: Wart hog () Either one of two species of large, savage African wild hogs of the genus Phacoch/rus. These animals have a pair of large, rough, fleshy tubercles behind the tusks and second pair behind the eyes. The tusks are large and strong, and both pairs curve upward. The body is scantily covered with bristles, but there is long dorsal mane. The South African species (Phacoch/rus Aethiopicus) is the best known. Called also vlacke vark. The second species (P. Aeliani) is native of the coasts of

Background :: Background (n.) Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front..

Behind :: Behind (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind..

Epencephalon :: Epencephalon (n.) The segment of the brain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen..

Cephalaspis :: Cephalaspis (n.) A genus of fossil ganoid fishes found in the old red sandstone or Devonian formation. The head is large, and protected by a broad shield-shaped helmet prolonged behind into two lateral points..

Trawler :: Trawler (n.) A fishing vessel which trails a net behind it.

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

Met- :: Met- () A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely..

Aforehand :: Aforehand (a.) Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand.

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