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or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mil.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front. -- Back stream, a current…

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.

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.

tured figure. Air balloon, a balloon for aërial navigation. -- Balloon frame (Carp.), a house frame constructed altogether of small timber. -- Balloon net, a variety of woven lace in which the weft threads are twisted in a peculiar manner around the warp.

The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.

The business of a bank or of a banker. Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

f one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

bly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

A tanhouse.

arnacle. Barnacle eater (Zoöl.), the orange filefish. -- Barnacle scale (Zoöl.), a bark louse (Ceroplastes cirripediformis) of the orange and quince trees in Florida. The female scale curiously resembles a sessile barnacle in form.

a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.

A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily. Du Chaillu.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

Originally, the place of a king; but afterward, an apartment provided in the houses of persons of importance, where assemblies were held for dispensing justice; and hence, any large hall used for this purpose.

A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures women for a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; -- usually applied to a woman.

A large house. [Obs.] Swift.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.