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A board which supports the back wen one is sitting;

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

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

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.…

One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.

One who backslides.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.

A sword with one sharp edge.

lly in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's self or property from harm or less. [Colloq.]

One skilled in bacteriology.

One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

A carved ornament on the stern of a vessel, containing a window or the representation of one.

ler in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another. [Now dialectic, Eng.]

One who badgers.

The act of one who badgers.

One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of Arthropods. Packard.

One of the thoracic legs of Arthropods.

ott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

One who, or that which, baffles.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.