Webster's Dictionary 1828

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BACKS

BACKS, noun Among dealers in leather, the thickest and best tanned hides.

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BACKSET

BACK'SET, adjective [back and set.] Set upon in the rear.

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BACKSIDE

BACK'SIDE, noun [back and side.] The back part of anything; the part behind that which is presented to the face of a spectator. Exodus 3:1.2. The hind part of an animal.3. The y...

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BACKSLIDE

BACKSLI'DE, verb intransitive [back and slide.] To fall off; to apostatize; to turn gradually from the faith and practice of christianity. Jeremiah 3:1. Hosea 4.

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BACKSLIDER

BACKSLI'DER, noun An apostate; one who falls from the faith and practice of religion. Proverbs 14:14.2. One who neglects his vows of obedience and falls into sin.

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BACKSLIDING

BACKSLI'DING, noun The act of apostatizing from faith or practice; a falling insensibly from religion into sin or idolatry. Jer. v.6.

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BACKSTAFF

BACK'STAFF, noun [back and staff, so called from its being used with the observer's back toward the sun.]A quadrant; an instrument for taking the sun's altitude at sea; called a...

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BACKSTAIRS

BACK'STAIRS, noun [back and stairs.]Stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs; and figuratively, a private or indirect way.

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BACKSTAYS

BACK'STAYS, noun [back and stay.]Long ropes or stays extending from the top-mast heads to both sides of a ship, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast, when strained by a ...

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BACKSWORD

BACK'SWORD, noun [back and sword.]A sword with one sharp edge. In England, a stick with a basket handle used in rustic amusements.7

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BACKWARD

BACK'WARDBACK'WARDLY, adverb Unwillingly; reluctantly; adversely; perversely.

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BACKWARDNESS

BACK'WARDNESS, noun Unwillingness; reluctance, dilatoriness, or dullness in action.2. A state of being behind in progress; slowness; tardiness; as the backwardness of the spring.

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BACKWARDS

BACK'WARDS, adverb [back and ward. See Ward.] With the back in advance; as, to move backward.2. Toward the back; as, to throw the arms backward; to move backwards and forwards.3...

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BACKWORM

BACK'WORM, noun [back and worm.] A small worm, in a thin skin, in the reins of a hawk. [See Filanders.]

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BACON

BA'CON, noun ba'kn.Hog's flesh, salted or pickled and dried, usually in smoke.To save one's bacon is to preserve one's self from harm.

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BACULE

BAC'ULE, noun In fortification, a kind of portcullis or gate, made like a pit-fall, with a counterpoise, and supported by two great stakes.

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BACULITE

BAC'ULITE, noun [Latin baculus.]A genus of fossil shells, of a straight form, in their cellular structure resembling the ammonites.

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BACULOMETRY

BACULOM'ETRY, noun [Latin baculus, a staff, and Gr. measure.]The act of measuring distance of altitude by a staff or staves.

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BAD

BAD, adjective [Heb. to perish or destroy]1. Ill; evil; opposed to good; a word of general use, denoting physical defects and moral faults, in men and things; as a bad man, a ba...

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BADE

BAD, BADE, the past tense of bid. [See Bid.]

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BADGE

BADGE, noun [I know not the affinities of this word, not having found it in any other language. Probably it belongs to class Bg.]1. A mark, sign, token or thing, by which a pers...

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BADGER

BADG'ER, noun In law, a person who is licensed to buy corn in one place and sell it in another, without incurring the penalties of engrossing.BADG'ER, noun A quadruped of the ge...

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BADGER-LEGGED

BADG'ER-LEGGED, adjective Having legs like a badger. Johnson says having legs of unequal length; but, qu.short thick legs.

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BADIAGA

BADIA'GA, noun A small spunge, common in the North of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.

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BADIANE

BAD'IANEBADIGE'ON, noun A mixture of plaster and free stone, ground together and sifted, used by statuaries to fill the small holes and repair the defects of the stones, of whic...

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BADINAGE

BAD'INAGE, noun Light or playful discourse.

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BADLY

BAD'LY, adverb [from bad.] In a bad manner; not well, unskillfully; grievously; unfortunately; imperfectly.