Word Meanings - BUNCH-BACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a bunch on the back; crooked. "Bunch-backed toad." Shak.

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• BACKWORM
  A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• BACKING
  The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover. (more info) 1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually
• BACKHANDER
  A backhanded blow.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• BACKSAW
  A saw whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• CROOKEDLY
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• CROOK
  A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. (more
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• WARTY-BACK
  An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons.
• CAMELBACKED; CAMEL-BACKED
  Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FINBACK
  Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
• HOGBACK
  An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
• SWAY-BACKED
  Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
• UNDERBACK
  A vessel which receives the wort as it flows from the mashing tub.