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To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

Toward the back or rear; backward. "Therewith aback she started." Chaucer.

On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

Having the back uncovered; as, a barebacked horse.

A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.

Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

The calico bass.

Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.

Chesapeake Bay and adjoining waters; -- so named from the markings of the plumage on its back.

A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] "Take heed of these clawbacks." Latimer.

A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.