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Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances.

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.

The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.

Perversely; ill.[Obs.] And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.

The state of being backward.

A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. [R.] Shak.

Towards bed.

To make a dwarf of; to stunt or hinder the growth of; to dwarf. Donne.

A porcelainlike kind of decorative pottery with a high gloss, which is sometimes iridescent. A very fine kind is made at Belleek in Ireland.

f some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

o take care; -- commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. Beware of all, but most beware of man ! Pope. Beware the awful avalanche. Longfellow.

A kind of metallic ware made in India. The material is a composition of zinc, tin, and lead, in which ornaments of gold and silver are inlaid or damascened. [Spelt also bidry, bidree, bedery, beder.]

A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

A bridge keeper; a warden or a guard for a bridge. [Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

ion. The royal navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense, . . . the floating bulwark of our island. Blackstone.

A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies. It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with a kind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlapping each other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wing which are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird,…

Same as Castleguard.

ced in front of the smoldering fire, with decanters, a jar of tobacco, and two long churchwardens. W. Black.

The office of a churchwarden.

A coarse, narrow cloth, like frieze, used by the lower classes in the sixteenth century. Halliwell.