Producing berries.

Having the form of a berry.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

See Base.

A man of any age who has not been married.

a knight of the lowest order; he was permitted to display only a pennon.

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.

The state of being a bachelor.

The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.

plural of bacillus; usually designating aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacteria; they often occur in chainlike formations.

Rod-shaped.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

a polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.

In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; a second staircase at the rear of a building; hence, a private or indirect way.

to serve as a backup{3} for (another person or persons); as, the patrolmen backed up the detectives as they went inside to make the arrest; the center fielder backed up the shortstop on the play.

a discussion; give-and-take.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it, such as emote from emotion.

occurring immediately one after the other; consecutive.

an ache localized in the back.

See Bacharach.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

Same as Baccare.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader.

an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.

To censure or revile the absent.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction.

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

Vertebrate.

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

to make effective from an earlier date; to make retroactive.

Acting from behind and in concealment; backstairs; as, backdoor intrigues.

A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

the scenery hung at back of stage. Also called in Britain backcloth.

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

A secret enemy.

In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first /table/. When played for betting purposes, the winner in such a case scores three times the wagered amount.

The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

Stroked with a backhand{2}; as, a backhanded drive.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

A backhanded blow.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. To trip (a person) in this way.

A building behind the main building. A privy; an outhouse; a necessary.

The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. Contrasted to forestick.

to hike while carrying a backpack; -- often used in the form go backpacking; as, to backpack through the forest.

one who backpacks; as, two backpackers were mauled by bears in Yellowstone this week.

pedal backwards, as on a bicycle.

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back.

See Bacharach.

a support that you can lean against while sitting.

the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.

In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter); a gratuity; a /tip/.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who backslides.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty.

In typing text, to press the backspace key so as to reposition the carriage or cursor on the previous space.

The key on a typewriter or other keyboard used for back spacing.

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

concealed from the public; in private.

Private; indirect; secret; conducted with secrecy; intriguing; -- as if finding access by the back stairs; as, backstairs gossip.

A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast.

A baker.

To sew with backstitches; as, to backstitch a seam.

In baseball, a fence, prop. at least 90 feet behind the home base, to stop the balls that pass the catcher; also, the catcher himself.

A female baker.

a swimming stroke that resembles the crawl except the swimmer lies on his or her back. It is usually executed with backward-moving circular arm strokes and a flutter kick.

aligned from front to back; slanted toward the back; -- used of hair.

any of numerous predaceous aquatic insects of the family Notonectidae (such as Notonecta undulata) that swim on their backs and may inflict painful bites; -- also called boat bug.

A sword with one sharp edge.

anything kept in reserve to serve as a substitute in case of failure or unavailability of the normal or primary object; -- used for devices, plans, people, etc. Also used attributively; as, there was no backup for the electrical supply; a backup motor; a backup generator.

To keep back; to hinder.

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.

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely.

The state of being backward.

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

The flow of water propelled backward by the propeller, paddle wheel, or oars of a boat.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the United States in former times.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders.

The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.

The presence of bacteria in the blood.

Of or pertaining to bacteremia.

See Bacterium.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by bacteria.

Destructive of bacteria.

Same as Germicide.

The presence of bacteria in the blood; same as bacteremia.

A bacterial vaccine.

Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.

One skilled in bacteriology.

The branch of microbiology relating to bacteria.

Chemical decomposition brought about by bacteria without the addition of oxygen.

a virus which infects bacteria; -- also colloquially called phage in laboratory jargon.

of or pertaining to bacteriophage.

Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.