Vocabulary : Backfriend to Backing
Backfriend : A secret enemy.Backgammon : A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. ;; In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".
Background : Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front. ;; The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. ;; Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had a background of red hangings. ;; A place in obscurity or retirement, or out of sight.
Backhand : A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right. ;; Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting. ;; Backhanded; indirect; oblique.
Backhanded : With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow. ;; Indirect; awkward; insincere; sarcastic; as, a backhanded compliment. ;; Turned back, or inclining to the left; as, a backhanded letters.
