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The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

To censure or revile the absent. They are arrant knaves, and will backbite. Shak.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Vertebrate.

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

Acting from behind and in concealment; as backdoor intrigues.

A receding or giving up; a complete surrender. [Colloq.]

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

nts of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".

Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings.

Backhanded; indirect; oblique. [R.]

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.