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  • English Word Backward Definition To keep back; to hinder.
  • English Word Backwardation Definition The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.
  • English Word Backwardly Definition Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.
  • English Word Backwardly Definition Perversely; ill.
  • English Word Backwardness Definition The state of being backward.
  • English Word Backwards Definition With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
  • English Word Backwards Definition Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
  • English Word Backwards Definition On the back, or with the back downward.
  • English Word Backwards Definition Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
  • English Word Backwards Definition By way of reflection; reflexively.
  • English Word Backwards Definition From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
  • English Word Backwards Definition In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
  • English Word Backwash Definition To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
  • English Word Backwater Definition 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.
  • English Word Backwater Definition An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
  • English Word Backwater Definition Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
  • English Word Backwoods Definition The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
  • English Word Backwoodsman Definition A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.
  • English Word Backwoodsmen Definition of Backwoodsman
  • English Word Backworm Definition A disease of hawks. See Filanders.
  • English Word Bacon Definition The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.
  • English Word Baconian Definition Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.
  • English Word Bacteria Definition See Bacterium.
  • English Word Bacteria Definition of Bacterium
  • English Word Bacterial Definition Of or pertaining to bacteria.
  • English Word Bactericidal Definition Destructive of bacteria.
  • English Word Bactericide Definition Same as Germicide.
  • English Word Bacteriological Definition Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.
  • English Word Bacteriologist Definition One skilled in bacteriology.
  • English Word Bacteriology Definition The science relating to bacteria.