Word Meanings - REFLEXED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bent backward or outward.

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;
OUTWARD; OUTWARDS
From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward. The wrong side may be turned outward. Shak. Light falling on them is not reflected outwards.
BACKWARDATION
The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango. Biddle.
BACKWARDLY
1. Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Perversely; ill. And does he think so backwardly of me Shak.
OUTWARDS
See ADV
BACKWARD
1. Directed to the back or rear; as, backward glances. 2. Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope. 3. Not well advanced in learning; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward
OUTWARD
1. Formmg the superficial part; external; exterior; -- opposed to inward; as, an outward garment or layer. Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. Cor. iv. 16. 2. Of or pertaining to the outer surface or to what
BACKWARDNESS
The state of being backward.