HANGMAN SOLVER

adj

1. (comparable, phonetics) Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
2. (predicative) Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
3. At or near the rear.
4. In arrears; overdue.
5. Moving or operating backward.
6. Not current.
7. Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.

adv

1. (not comparable) In a reciprocal manner; in return.
2. (not comparable) To or in a previous condition or place.
3. (postpositive) Earlier, ago.
4. Away from someone or something; at a distance.
5. Away from the front or from an edge.
6. In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
7. In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
8. In a manner that impedes.
9. So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
10. So as to reverse direction and return.
11. To a later point in time. See also put back.
12. Towards, into or in the past.

noun

1. (figurative) The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
2. (figuratively) Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
3. (mining) The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
4. (nautical) The keel and keelson of a ship.
5. (obsolete) That part of the body that bears clothing. (Now used only in the phrase clothes on one's back.)
6. (printing) The inside margin of a page.
7. (slang, uncountable) Effort, usually physical.
8. (slang, uncountable) Large and attractive buttocks.
9. (sports) In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
10. (swimming) Clipping of backstroke.
11. A ferryboat.
12. A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
13. A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
14. A support or resource in reserve.
15. Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
16. Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
17. That which is farthest away from the front.
18. The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
19. The edge of a book which is bound.
20. The part of something that goes last.
21. The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
22. The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
23. The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
24. The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
25. The spine and associated tissues.

postp

1. Before now; ago.

verb

1. (MLE, transitive) To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
2. (Nigeria, transitive) To carry an infant on one's back.
3. (UK, of a hunting dog) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
4. (intransitive) To go in the reverse direction.
5. (law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
6. (nautical, of a square sail) To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
7. (nautical, of an anchor) To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
8. (nautical, of the wind) To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
9. (transitive) To push or force backwards.
10. (transitive) To support.
11. (transitive, obsolete) To get upon the back of; to mount.
12. (transitive, obsolete) To place or seat upon the back.
13. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
14. To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
15. To row backward with (oars).
16. To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.