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Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser.

eavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.

To stop; to check or hinder the motion or action of; as, to arrest the current of a river; to arrest the senses. Nor could her virtues the relentless hand Of Death arrest. Philips.

"That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

The buttocks, or hind part of an animal; the posteriors; the fundament; the bottom.

One of the divisions of the ungulate animals. The functional toes of the hind foot are even in number, and the third digit of each foot (corresponding to the middle finger in man) is asymmetrical and paired with the fourth digit, as in the hog, the sheep, and the ox; - - opposed to Perissodactyla.

ve lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

In human beings, the hinder part of the body, extending from the neck to the end of the spine; in other animals, that part of the body which corresponds most nearly to such part of a human being; as, the back of a horse, fish, or lobster.

Acting from behind and in concealment; as backdoor intrigues.

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

A building behind the main building. Specifically: A privy; a necessary.

That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually giving strength or stability.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also, the catcher himself.