Word Finder - backs

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The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.

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Could you please scratch my back?

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That which is farthest away from the front.

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He sat in the back of the room.

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Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.

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The small boat raced over the backs of the waves.

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A support or resource in reserve.

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The keel and keelson of a ship.

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The ship's back broke in the pounding surf.

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The roof of a horizontal underground passage.

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Effort, usually physical.

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Put some back into it!

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A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.

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Could I get a martini with a water back?

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Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

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To go in the reverse direction.

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the train backed into the station;  the horse refuses to back

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To support.

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I back you all the way;  which horse are you backing in this race?

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(of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.

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(of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.

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(of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.

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(of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.

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To push or force backwards.

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The mugger backed her into a corner and demanded her wallet.

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To get upon the back of; to mount.

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To place or seat upon the back.

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To make a back for; to furnish with a back.

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to back books

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To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.

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To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.

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to back a letter;  to back a note or legal document

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(of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).

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To row backward with (oars).

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to back the oars

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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.

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A ferryboat.

The two ambones in the cathedral of Salerno, which are different in design, are magnificent in effect and are enriched with sculpture as well as with mosaic. In the gospel ambo in the cathedral of Ravello (1272), and also in that of the convent of the Trinita della Cava near Salerno, the spiral columns inlaid with mosaic stand on the backs of lions.

The seats, holding two persons, are placed transversely on each side of the central passage, and have reversible backs, so that passengers can always sit facing the direction in which the train is travelling.

Coal was brought down from the hills on the backs of mules, and iron carried in two-ton wagons.

There are benches with backs not only in the bottom row, but also above and below the diazoma.

Of foxes certainly distinct specifically from the typical representative of the group, one of the best known is the Indian Vulpes bengalensis, a species much inferior in point of size to its European relative, and lacking the strong odour of the latter, from which it is also distinguished by the black tip to the tail and the pale-coloured backs of the ears.

The long and bushy tail in the northern species has a white tip and a dark gland-patch near the root, but the backs of the ears are fawn-coloured.

In " anasarca " the tissues which suffer most are those which are peculiarly lax, such as the lower eyelids, the scrotum, and the backs of the hands and feet.

In such mines the mineral was carried out on the backs of men, and the water was laboriously raised by a long line of suction-pumps, operated by hand, each lifting the water a few feet only.

But avicularia or vibracula may also occur in other places - on the backs of unilaminar erect forms, along the sutural lines of the zooecia and on their frontal surface.

When running, they arch their backs and scurry away in a series of short leaps.

For example, on the surface of a shibuichi box-lid we see the backs of a flock of geese chiselled in silver, and when the lid is opened, their breasts and the under-sides of their pinions appear.

The chambers were really reservoirs, filled by the water which flowed along their backs.

Two female heads of like proportions belong to the system, since the backs of their heads are cut away in the same manner as the male heads.

These, with the sun now almost at their backs, were shooting better than usual, and Manteuffel was compelled to call on the VIII.

Just as the leading German troops were approaching St Hubert the French again began to fire, their bullets plunging down among the fresh arrivals, who knowing nothing of what had taken place about St Hubert (where the remnant of their own infantry were still offering a desperate resistance) opened fire into the backs of their own men, and a fourth panic began which soon spread to the stragglers crowding the Mance ravine.

A third experiment took the form of distributing over many backs a burden too heavy for one.

The traders bring with them tents on the backs of camels and these are pitched near the native town.

In size these animals may be compared roughly to rabbits and hares; and they have rodent-like habits, hunching up their backs after the fashion of some foreign members of the hare-family, more especially the Liu-Kiu rabbit.

The backs are worked into linings separately, as are the bellies or "locks."

After the dressing process the backs of the squirrels are made up separately from the under and thinner white and grey parts, the first being known as squirrelback and the other as squirrel-lock linings.

Lothairs rebuff in Bohemia stiffened the backs of Frederick and Conrad, and in order to contend with them the king secured a powerful ally by marrying his daughter Gertrude to Henry the Proud, a grandson of Welf, whom Henry IV.

Roads suitable for wheeled vehicles are found in Lower Egypt, but the majority of the tracks are bridle-paths, goods being conveyed on the backs of donkeys, mules and camels.

The thin watery "slip" or slurry flows into large settling tanks ("backs") where the solids in suspension are deposited; the water is drawn off, leaving behind an intimate mixture of chalk and clay in the form of a wet paste.

Mayflies and dragon-flies danced in the sunlight; lizards darted across the paths; and legions of spiders pervaded the grass, many very beautiful - frosted - silver backs, or curious, like the saltigrades, who took a few steps and then gave a leap. There were crickets in infinite numbers; and flies innumerable, from slim daddy-long-legs to ponderous, black, hairy fellows known to science as Dejeaniae; hymenopterous insects in profusion, including our old friend the bishop of Ambato (possibly Dielis), in company with another formidable stinger, with chrome antennae, called by the natives ` the Devil '; and occasional Phasmas (caballo de palo) crawling painfully about, like animated twigs."

Another explanation is based on the late appearance of the petals in the floral development and their origin from the backs of the primordia of the stamens; it is then assumed that three alternating whorls only are present, namely, sepals, stamens bearing petal-like dorsal outgrowths, and carpels.

The inland transit of goods is almost entirely on the backs of bulls carrying from 450 to 600 lb, on ponies carrying 200 ib, and on men carrying from l00 to 150 lb, bringing the average cost up to a fraction over 8d.

But by a most skilful manoeuvre Narses contrived to draw his lines into a curve, so that his mounted archers on each flank could aim their arrows at the backs of the troops who formed the other side of the Alamannic wedge.

Backs of Teeth and Spaces.Toothed wheels being in general intended to rotate either way, the backs of the teeth are made similar to the fronts.

Looking eastwards from the Kaisargarh, one can again count the backs of innumerable minor ridges, smaller wrinkles or folds formed during a process of upheaval of the Suliman Mountains, at the close of a great volcanic epoch which has hardly yet ceased to give evidence of its existence.

The coal was conveyed to the works and for shipment to a wharf on the east bank, on the backs of mules and somewhat later by means of a private canal.

They are essentially horsemen, and have a cruel habit of gashing the backs of their ponies that they may get a good seat in the blood.

The larger, supported by six columns resting on the backs of lions, was made in 1272 by Nicolaus of Foggia;' the bust over the entrance to it is said to be a portrait of Sigilgaita Rufolo.

With their broad, straight backs, curved ribs, and capacious quarters, they carry a great weight of carcass upon strong, wide-standing legs.

The medieval-looking group of government buildings situated in the Binnenhof (or "inner court"), their backs reflected in the pretty sheet of water called the Vyver, represent both historically and topographically the centre of the Hague.

Those workmen who refused to accept them were to be imprisoned, while employers who went behind the backs of their fellows and secretly paid higher sums were to be punished by heavy fines.

Well sir, I don't judge people by the clothes on their backs and the cars they drive.

Just don't try to tame any of those black kitties with the white stripes down their backs.

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Shelves, doors, backs and so on can be integrated into this simple, square or rectangular modular architecture using small hidden fitments.

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The backs of the front seats have elasticated pockets for the children's bits and pieces and a small binnacle on each door.

Now came another bitter blow when cut backs in public expenditure forced the withdrawal of the invitation to tender.

The rest of the online based bookmakers will be watching their backs if they take sports bets from Americans.

We just couldn't make any significant headway despite having the benefit of a stiff breeze behind our backs.

Petty bureaucrats have great bureaucrats upon their backs to bite ' em.

We dare not turn our backs on the tender compassion of Jesus.

Every toxicologist, physiologist, medical doctor and most chemists know that... Cigarette smoke condensate applied to the backs of mice causes tumors.

Older male Gaurs have a big dorsal ridge along the length of their backs and huge dewlaps.

He backs calls for a reduced speed limit, traffic lights and suggests curb edgings and a weight limit to stop heavy vehicles.

These hellraisers ride around in South America on the backs of snails, eating the excreta their ambling mounts produce.