BACKWARD

backward. Backward, a. unwilling, dull, slow, sluggish

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{ Back″ward (�), Back″wards (�), } adv. [[Back, adv. + -ward.]] 1. 1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
2. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
3. 3. On the back, or with the back downward.
Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
Some reigns backward. Locke. 5. 5. By way of reflection; reflexively. Sir J. Davies.
6. 6. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.
The work went backward. Dryden. 7. 7. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
We might have . . . beat them backward home. Shak.