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  • English Word Back Definition The keel and keelson of a ship.
  • English Word Back Definition The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
  • English Word Back Definition A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
  • English Word Back Definition Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
  • English Word Back Definition Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
  • English Word Back Definition Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
  • English Word Back Definition In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
  • English Word Back Definition To get upon the back of; to mount.
  • English Word Back Definition To place or seat upon the back.
  • English Word Back Definition To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
  • English Word Back Definition To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
  • English Word Back Definition To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
  • English Word Back Definition To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
  • English Word Back Definition To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
  • English Word Back Definition To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
  • English Word Back Definition To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
  • English Word Back Definition To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
  • English Word Back Definition To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
  • English Word Back Definition In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
  • English Word Back Definition To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.
  • English Word Back Definition To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
  • English Word Back Definition (Of time) In times past; ago.
  • English Word Back Definition Away from contact; by reverse movement.
  • English Word Back Definition In concealment or reserve; in one's own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
  • English Word Back Definition In a state of restraint or hindrance.
  • English Word Back Definition In return, repayment, or requital.
  • English Word Back door Definition A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
  • English Word Back stairs Definition Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
  • English Word Backarack Definition A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
  • English Word Backarack Definition See Bacharach.