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Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Moving or operating backward; as, back action. Back charges, charges brought forward after an account has been made up. -- Back filling (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault. -- Back press…

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast. [ Often used in the plural.]

To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

ow of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is though…

of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after the fast.

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

A great beam, rafter, or timber; esp., the tie-beam of a house. The loft above was called "the balks." Tubs hanging in the balks. Chaucer.

gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye. -- Ball valve…

In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first ballot to decide between two or several candidates.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.

A common American bird (Icterus galbula), named after Lord Baltimore, because its colors (black and orange red) are like those of his coat of arms; -- called also golden robin.

architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

To partake of a dessert after a feast. [Obs.] Where they did both sup and banquet. Cavendish.