English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Back
(adv.)
To a former state, condition, or station; as, to go back to
private life; to go back to barbarism.
Back
(adv.)
(Of time) In times past; ago.
Back
(adv.)
Away from contact; by reverse movement.
Back
(adv.)
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.
Back
(adv.)
In a state of restraint or hindrance.
Back
(adv.)
In return, repayment, or requital.
Back
(adv.)
In withdrawal from a statement, promise, or undertaking;
as, he took back0 the offensive words.
Back
(adv.)
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.
Backarack
(n.)
A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
Backarack
(n.)
See Bacharach.
Backare
(interj.)
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.
Backare
(interj.)
Same as Baccare.
Backband
(n.)
The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds
up the shafts of a carriage.
Backbite
(v. i.)
To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly
or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one
absent).
Backbite
(v. i.)
To censure or revile the absent.
Backbiter
(n.)
One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Backbiting
(n.)
Secret slander; detraction.
Backboard
(n.)
A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures,
mirrors, etc.