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the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall.

not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. In this also [dress] the country are very much behindhand. Addison.

Behind; in the rear. Knolles.

Behind; toward the stern from; as, abaft the wheelhouse. Abaft the beam. See under Beam.

The posterior section of the body, behind the thorax, in insects, crustaceans, and other Arthropoda.

rt of fresh-water fishes, and many marine ones, having the ventral fins under the abdomen behind the pectorals.

In breech-loading firearms, the block behind the barrel which receives the pressure due to recoil.

sses a stronger impression than fear, or apprehension, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

Prepared; previously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.] Aforehand in all matters of power. Bacon.

Behind in place; as, men in line one after another. "Shut doors after you." Shak.

The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.

To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden.

Backward; in or to the rear; behindhand. Spenser.

heavy cloth with interwoven figures. Stateliest couches, with rich arras spread. Cowper. Behind the arras I'll convey myself. Shak.

To or in the rear; behind; backwards. [Obs.] Spenser.

"That which is behind"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate. Arriere fee, Arriere fief, a fee or fief dependent on a superior fee, or a fee held of a feudatory. -- Arriere vassal, the vassal of a vassal.

Consisting of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the act…

A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all the rooms immediately below the roof.

A garment for the back; hence, clothing. A bak to walken inne by daylight. Chaucer. Behind one's back, when one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's bac…