BPage 11
- English Word Backed Definition of Back
- English Word Backed Definition Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.
- English Word Backer Definition One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.
- English Word Backfall Definition A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.
- English Word Backfriend Definition A secret enemy.
- English Word Backgammon Definition A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
- English Word Backgammon Definition In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
- English Word Background Definition The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures.
- English Word Background Definition A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
- English Word Background Definition Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.
- English Word Background Definition Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.
- English Word Backhand Definition Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.
- English Word Backhand Definition A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
- English Word Backhand Definition Backhanded; indirect; oblique.
- English Word Backhanded Definition With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.
- English Word Backhanded Definition Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment.
- English Word Backhanded Definition Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
- English Word Backhandedness Definition State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.
- English Word Backhander Definition A backhanded blow.
- English Word Backhouse Definition A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.