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A sleeveless garment or part of a garment, hanging from the neck over the back, arms, and shoulders, but not reaching below the hips. See Cloak.

hat they will catch in the notches of the pawl ring, and prevent the capstan from turning back. -- To rig the capstan, to prepare the for use, by putting the bars in the sockets. -- To surge the capstan, to slack the tension of the rope or cable wound around it.

The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.

A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a cent…

nsisting of bent wire teeth set closely in rows in a thick piece of leather fastened to a back.

A race course: the ground run over. To go back again the same career. Sir P. Sidney.

oint; (3) isothermal compression to such a point that (4) adiabatic compression brings it back to its initial state.

A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.

knotted line or cord fastened to a handle; -- formerly used to flog offenders on the bare back. -- Cat's cradle, game played, esp. by children, with a string looped on the fingers so, as to resemble small cradle. The string is transferred from the fingers of one to those of another, at each transfer with a change of f…

Backwards; toward the tail or posterior part.

A procession of persons on horseback; a formal, pompous march of horsemen by way of parade. He brought back war-worn cavalcade to the city. Prescott.

A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

That part of military force which serves on horseback.

rd, and equal to 100; the breadth index. -- Cephalic vein, a large vein running from the back of the head alond the arm; -- so named because the ancients used to open it for disorders of the head. Dunglison.

A group of nudibranchiate Mollusca having on the back papilliform or branched organs serving as gills.

embranes of the brain and spinal cord, giving rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

A movable single seat with a back.

ions; the tail is prehensile, and the body is much compressed laterally, giving it a high back.

Overalls of sheepskin or leather, usually open at the back, worn, esp. by cowboys, to protect the legs from thorny bushes, as in the chaparral; -- called also chapareras or colloq. chaps. [Sp. Amer.]

ch an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap.