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g or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope.

In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards. We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

A stripe, streak, or other mark transverse to the axis of the body.

nal poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

neighborhood of Carrara and in Corsica. It commonly shows a dark gray or bluish ground traversed by veins.

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

Traversed by barrulets or small bars; -- said of the field.

he surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.

To make progress against the wind, by sailing in a zigzag line or traverse.

One versed in belleslettres.

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.

Accomplished; versed. [Archaic] Spenser.

One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.

One versed in two languages.

A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology.

A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is cal…