Backwards: alternatives and connections

Toward the back or rear; backward.

Before in place, or beforehand in time; -- used for advanced; as, an advance guard, or that before the main guard or body of an army;…

An advance of money or value; payment in advance. See Advance, 5.

A prefix in words from the Greek, denoting up, upward, throughout, backward, back, again, anew.

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

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

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

On the bare back of a horse, without using a saddle; as, to ride bareback.

Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind.

To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct.

Bearing, or producing, on the back; -- applied to ferns which produce seeds on the back of the leaf, and to certain Batrachia, the ova…

Foremost; in front of, or in advance of, all others.

In the foremost place or order; among the foremost.

To take possession of, in advance of some one or something else, to the exclusion or detriment of the latter; to get ahead of; to preo…

Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

The part or surface of anything which seems to look out, or to be directed forward; the fore or forward part; the foremost rank; the v…

To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figura…

To go or to be in advance of; to precede; hence, to be foremost or chief among; as, the big sloop led the fleet of yachts; the Guards…