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العربية
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الظّهر
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الظّهور
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Backs
- (n. pl.) Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
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• Back
- (adv.) In a state of restraint or hindrance.
- (v. i.) To move or go backward; as, the horse refuses to back.
- (n.) A garment for the back; hence, clothing.
- (v. i.) To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
- (v. i.) To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend.
- (n.) In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.
- (v. i.) To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
- (n.) An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge.
- (a.) Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.
- (n.) The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.
- (n.) The keel and keelson of a ship.
- (a.) Moving or operating backward; as, back action.
- (n.) The part opposed to the front; the hinder or rear part of a thing; as, the back of a book; the back of an army; the back of a chimney.
- (adv.) 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 ones native place; to put a book back after reading it.
- (n.) A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
- (adv.) In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.
- (v. i.) To get upon the back of; to mount.
- (n.) The outward or upper part of a thing, as opposed to the inner or lower part; as, the back of the hand, the back of the foot, the back of a hand rail.
- (n.) A support or resource in reserve.
- (a.) Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent.
- (adv.) To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
- (adv.) In concealment or reserve; in ones own possession; as, to keep back the truth; to keep back part of the money due to another.
- (n.) The part opposite to, or most remote from, that which fronts the speaker or actor; or the part out of sight, or not generally seen; as, the back of an island, of a hill, or of a village.
- (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.
- (v. i.) To change from one quarter to another by a course opposite to that of the sun; -- used of the wind.
- (adv.) (Of time) In times past; ago.
- (v. i.) To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
- (adv.) In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
- (adv.) Away from contact; by reverse movement.
- (v. i.) To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
- (adv.) In return, repayment, or requital.
- (n.) The upper part of a lode, or the roof of a horizontal underground passage.
- (adv.) In arrear; as, to be back in ones rent.
- (n.) A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
- (v. i.) To place or seat upon the back.
- (v. i.) To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
Synonyms:
Backbone, Backward, Backwards, Binding, Cover, Dorsum, Endorse, Gage, Game, Hind, Hinder, Indorse, Punt, Rachis, Rear, Rearward, Second, Spine, Stake, Support,
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• Backslidden
- (p. p.) of Backslide
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• Backstitch
- (v. i.) To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.
- (n.) A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
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Originator, Cayenne, Necessarily, Agonal, Agon, Agnome, Direction, Originator, Conservative, Clover, Martial Law, Consistent, Sweeping, Aglowed, Aggres, Originator, Procide, Community, Escaped, Listens, Subscribe, Escaped, Listens, Aggre, Stunt, Goin, Appurtenances, Abandoned, Procide, Idioms, Sola, Reverence, |
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A, A1, Aquiline, Aardvark, Aardwolf, Abaca, Aback, Abacus, Abaft, Abalone, Abandon, Abandoned, Abandonment, Abase, Abasement, Abash, Abashed, Abashment, Abate, Abatement, Abater, Abattoir, Abb, Abbacy, Abbess, Abbey, Abbot, Abbreviate, Abbreviation, Abdicate, Abdication, Abdomen, |
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