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akes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; --called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.

The back part of the head or neck. [Obs.] For occasion ... turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken. Bacon.

United States. The male has the head and neck deep blue, rump and under parts bright red, back and wings golden green, and the tail bluish purple. Called also painted finch.

The back or upper surface, as of a bird.

Of or pertaining to the back; dorsal.

To set down in musical characters. To note a bill or draft, to record on the back of it a refusal of acceptance, as the ground of a protest, which is done officially by a notary.

A division of nudibranchiate mollusks having gills upon the back.

a, Nerice, and allied genera. The caterpillar of these moths has a hump, or spine, on its back.

Having the radicle of the embryo lying against the back of one of the cotyledons; incumbent.

The back.

The back or upper part of the neck; the nape.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, of the neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in the carapace of turtles.

lusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.

Of or pertaining to the occiput, or back part of the head, or to the occipital bone. Occipital bone (Anat.), the bone which forms the posterior segment of the skull and surrounds the great foramen by which the spinal cord leaves the cranium. In the higher vertebrates it is usually composed of four bones, which become c…

The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the region of the occipital bone.

ard a point before or in front; forward; progressively; as, to move onward. Not one looks backward, onward still he goes. Pope.

A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella, farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of its own, and often used as a treasury.

A writing upon the back of anything, as upon the back of a leaf or sheet already written upon on one side. [R.] Scudamore.

A tetanic spasm in which the body is bent backwards and stiffened.

ixation of an image in the eye. The object so photographed shows white on a purple or red background. See Visual purple, under Visual.