Vocabulary : Backset to Backslider

Backset : A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. ;; Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. ;; To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
Backsettler : One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Backsheesh : Alt. of Backshish
Backshish : In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".
Backside : The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

Backsight : The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.
Backslid : of Backslide ;; of Backslide
Backslidden : of Backslide
Backslide : To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
Backslider : One who backslides.

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