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Weak; inconsistent; contradictory. [R.] The evidance is crimp; the witnesses swear backward and forward, and contradict themselves. Arbuthnot.

A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

llust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the potection of commerce, in search of an enemy, for plunder, or for pleasure.

Crooked; bent. [Obs.] Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor.

The cracklling noise made by block tin when it is bent back and forth. A far cry, a long distance; -- in allusion to the sending of criers or messengers through the territory of a Scottish clan with an announcement or summons.

The tail; the end of a thing; especially, a tail-like twist of hair worn at the back of the head; a queue.

The fold at the end of a sleeve; the part of a sleeve turned back from the hand. He would visit his mistress in a morning gown, band,short cuffs, and a peaked beard. Arbuthnot.

A small central plane in the back of a cut gem. See Collet, 3 (b).

A swelling on the back part of the hind leg of a horse, just behind the lowest part of the hock joint, generally causing lameness. James Law. Curb bit, a stiff bit having branches by which a leverage is obtained upon the jaws of horse. Knight. -- Curb pins (Horology), the pins on the regulator which restrain the hairs…

Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.

al instrument of brass, shaped like a circular dish or a flat plate, with a handle at the back; -- used in pairs to produce a sharp ringing sound by clashing them together.

A direction to go back to the sign Segno.

wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water.

To bewilder or surprise with brilliancy or display of any kind. "Dazzled and drove back his enemies." Shak.

ropean moth (Acherontia atropos), so called from a figure resembling a human skull on the back of the thorax; -- called also death's-head sphinx.

A customhouse certificate entitling an exporter of imported goods to a drawback of duties paid on their importation. Burrill.

Entitled to drawback or debenture; as, debentured goods.

a debt; one who is indebted; -- correlative to creditor. [I 'll] bring your latter hazard back again, And thankfully rest debtor for the first. Shak. In Athens an insolvent debtor became slave to his creditor. Mitford. Debtors for our lives to you. Tennyson.