| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| backarack | noun | A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine., See Bacharach. |
| backbiter | noun | One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor. |
| backboard | noun | A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;, A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon., A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc., A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel., A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure. |
| backboned | adjective | Vertebrate. |
| back door | A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. | |
| backhouse | noun | A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary. |
| backjoint | noun | A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling. |
| backpiece | noun | Alt. of Backplate |
| backplate | noun | A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back. |
| backshish | noun | In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a “tip”. |
| backsight | noun | 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. |
| backslide | verb i. | To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed. |
| backstaff | noun | An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; — so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed. |
| backstair | adjective | Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; — as if finding access by the back stairs. |
| backsword | noun | A sword with one sharp edge., In England, a stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. |
| backwards | adverb | With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward., Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward., On the back, or with the back downward., Toward, or in, past time or events; ago., By way of reflection; reflexively., From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin., In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. |
| backwater | noun | Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar., An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction., Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer. |
| backwoods | noun pl. | The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers. |