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To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to private life; to go back to barbarism.
(Of time) In times past; ago.
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
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.
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
In return, repayment, or requital.
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking; as, he took back0 the offensive words.
In arrear; as, to be back in one's rent.
A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
See Bacharach.
Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
Same as Baccare.
The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent).
To censure or revile the absent.
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Secret slander; detraction.
A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc.