Back and forth, backwards and forwards; to and fro. -- To go back on, to turn back from; to abandon; to betray; as, to go back on a friend; to go back on one's professions. [Colloq.]
Back"a*rack (bk"*rk), n. See Bacharach.
Bac*ka"re (&?;), interj. Same as Baccare.
Back"band` (-bnd), n. [2d back, n. + band.] (Saddlery) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
Back"bite`, v. t. [2d back, n. + bite.] To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.
Back"bite`, v. i. To censure or revile the absent.
They are arrant knaves, and will backbite.
Shak.
Back"bit`er (&?;), n. One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Back"bit`ing (&?;), n. Secret slander; detraction.
Backbiting, and bearing of false witness.
Piers Plowman.