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omputing; calculation; reckoning. By just computation of the time. Shak. By a computation backward from ourselves. Bacon.

To make terms; to stipulate. Pay me back my credit, And I'll condition with ye. Beau. & Fl.

such a nature that after the system has undergone any series of changes, and been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.

To hold back by force; to restrain; to repress. My sire in caves constrains the winds. Dryden.

tponement of payment by the buyer of stock on the payment of a premium to the seller. See Backwardation. N. Biddle.

The state of being despised; disgrace; shame. Contempt and begarry hangs upon thy back. Shaks.

Twisted back upon itself, as some parts of plants.

veying, carrying, or transporting; carriage. The long joirney was to be performed on horseback, -- the only sure mode of conveyamce. Prescott. Following th river downward, there is conveyance into the countries named in the text. Sir W. Raleigh.

To bring back, or attempt to bring back, to propriety in morals; to reprove or punish for faults or deviations from moral rectitude; to chastise; to discipline; as, a child should be corrected for lying. My accuser is my 'prentice; and when I did correct him for his fault the other day, he did vow upon his knees he wou…

Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

At or against the front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.

To march back, or to march in reversed order. The two armies marched and countermarched, drew near and receded. Macaulay.

b spider (Zoöl.), one of a group of spiders (Laterigradæ); -- called because they can run backwards or sideways like a crab. -- Crab tree, the tree that bears crab applies. -- Crab wood, a light cabinet wood obtained in Guiana, which takes a high polish. McElrath. -- To catch a crab (Naut.), a phrase used of a rower…

adled and transported over the grade. Knight. To cradle a picture, to put ribs across the back of a picture, to prevent the panels from warping.

An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire.

A tool for making the band impression distinct on the back. Knight.

the crown or nape of bird, etc. Darwin. [Attack] his rising crest, and drive the serpent back. C. Pitt.

A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc.

A painful, spasmodic affection of the muscles of some part of the body, as of the neck or back, rendering it difficult to move the part. To those also that, with a crick or cramp, have thei necks drawn backward. Holland.