Word Meanings - RAZOR-BACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.

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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.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• 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.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• 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.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• RAZORBACK
  The rorqual.
• RAZOR-BACKED
  Having a sharp, lean, or thin back; as, a razor-backed hog, perch, etc.
• 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;
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• 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.
• UNRAZORED
  Not shaven. Milton.
• 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.