·adj Having a curved spine.
·vt To play on a lute, or as on a lute. II. Lute ·vi To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats. II...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Back>>. II. Backed ·adj Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrot...
Dead. He wishes to have the senior, or old square-toes, backed; he longs to have his father on six m...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Synonymous with pink-stern. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·adj Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair. II. Broken-backed ·adj Hogged; so weakened in...
·adj Having a bunch on the back; crooked. ...
·adj Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. ...
·adj Round-shoulded. ...
·adj Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, ·etc. ...
·adj Having a back like that of roach; — said of a horse whose back a convex instead of a concave c...
·adj Having a round back or shoulders; round-shouldered. ...
·adj Having a low back and high neck, as a horse. II. Saddle-backed ·adj Having the outline of the ...
·adj <<Obstinate>>. ...
·adj Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; — ...
Hump-backed. ...
The state of a ship so loosened in her frame, either by age, weakness, or some great strain from gro...
A species of whalebone whale, the Megaptera longimana, which attains to 45 or 50 feet in length, and...