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A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way. Atterbury.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

See Bacharach.

Same as Baccare.

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.