Part 853

<hw>Back"log`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>, a. + <ets>log</ets>.]</ety> <def>A large stick of wood, forming the of a fire on the hearth.</def> <mark>[U.S.]</mark>

<blockquote>There was first a <b>backlog</b>, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. <i> S. G. Goodrich.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Backpiece, Backplate</h1> <Xpage=110>

<hw><hw>Back"piece`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Back"plate`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>,<tt>n.</tt>or a. + <ets>piece</ets>, <ets>plate</ets>. ]</ety> <def>A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.</def>

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<h1>Backrack, Backrag</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw><hw>Back"rack</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Back"rag</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Bacharach</er>.</def>

<h1>Backs</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Backs</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.</def>

<h1>Backsaw</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"saw`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[2d <ets>back</ets>,n.+ <ets>saw</ets>.]</ety> <def>A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.</def>

<h1>Backset</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"set`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>, adv. + <ets>set</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.</def>

<blockquote>Slackwater, or the <b>backset</b> caused by the overflow. <i>Harper's Mag.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Backset</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"set`</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.</def> <mark>[Western U.S.]</mark>

<h1>Backsettler</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"set"tler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>, a. + <ets>settler</ets>.]</ety> <def>One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.</def>

<blockquote>The English <b>backsettlers</b> of Leinster and Munster. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Backsheesh, Backshish</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw><hw>Back"sheesh`</hw>, <hw>Back"shish`</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pers. <ets>bakhsh\'c6sh</ets>, fr. <ets>bakhsh\'c6dan</ets> to give.]</ety> <def>In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".</def>

<h1>Backside</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"side`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>, a. + <ets>side</ets>. ]</ety> <def>The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Backside</i> (one word) was formerly used of the rear part or side of any thing or place, but in such senses is now two words.</note>

<h1>Backsight</h1> <Xpage=111>

<hw>Back"sight`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Back</ets>, adv. + <ets>sight</ets>. ]</ety> <fld>(Surv.)</fld> <def>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. <er>Foresight</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, 3.</def>

<h1>Backslide</h1> <Xpage=111>