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ed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's back, to be helpless. -- To put, or get, one's back up, to assume an attitude of obstinate resistance (from the action of a cat when attacked.). [Colloq.] -- To see the back of, to get rid of. -- To turn the back, to go away; to flee. -- To turn the back o…

The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

onging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Cert…

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage. Thackeray.

The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.

Originally, a person put in charge of something especially, a chief officer, magistrate, or keeper, as of a county, town, hundred, or castle; one to whom power Abbott. Lausanne is under the canton of Berne, governed by a bailiff sent every three years from the senate. Addison.

e Puppet valve. -- Hydrostatic balance. See under Hydrostatic. -- To lay in balance, to put up as a pledge or security. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- To strike a balance, to find out the difference between the debit and credit sides of an account.

Any heavy substance, as stone, iron, etc., put into the hold to sink a vessel in the water to such a depth as to prevent capsizing.

as from man to man; to agitate. Let not obvious and known truth be bandied about in a disputation. I. Watts.

To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

A wicker case, in which salt is put to drain.

being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles. Lyman.

To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance. [Obs.] His countenance was bold and bashed not. Spenser.

To put into a basket. [R.]

Disputable. [Obs.]

nce, injury, or change. In all criminal cases the most favorable interpretation should be put on words that they can possibly bear. Swift.

To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock. Among all chains or clusters of mountains where large bodies of still water are bedded. Wordsworth.

Straw put into a bed. Bacon.

To duck; to put the head under water; to immerse. "Deep himself beducked." Spenser.