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The back of a horse.

A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings.

Round-shoulded.

A crooked back; a humped back. Tatler.

Having a humped back.

A small salmon (Oncorhynchus gorbuscha) which ascends the rivers of the Pacific coast from California to Alaska, and also on the Asiatic side. In the breeding season the male has a large dorsal hump and distorted jaws.

A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.

Having a humped back.

ent, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.

The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative. Dr. Prier.

A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage. [Colloq.]

A large sea turtle (Sphargis coriacea), having no bony shell on its back. It is common in the warm and temperate parts of the Atlantic, and sometimes weighs over a thousand pounds; -- called also leather turtle, leathery turtle, leather-backed tortoise, etc.

Having a curved spine.

In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.

A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss. [Political Slang, U.S.]

A genus including certain comma-shaped marine bacteria which emit bluish or greenish phosphorescence. Also, any microörganism of this group.

On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback. [Written also pickapack, pickback, and pickpack.] A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.

On the back.

The stickleback.

Proof; trial. [Obs.] Chaucer.