backed
(bækt)
Forms: 5 backyd, 6 backt (Sc. bakkit), 6– backed.
[f. back n. and v. + -ed.]
1. adj. Provided with a back, having a back, background, or backing; used particularly in composition, e.g. broad-backed, pig-backed, hog-backed.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xiii. (1495) 422 Scabbyd horses and sore backyd. 1530 Palsgr. 442/2 This sworde is well backed. 1602 Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 397 It is back'd like a Weazell. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 78 Upon a back'd chair. 1716 Lond. Gaz. No. 5395/4 One gray Nagg..somewhat Pigg-backed. 1863 Kingsley Water Bab. ii. 48 Whitebeam with its great silver-backed leaves. |
2. pple. and a. Supported at the back, seconded, abetted; betted on; mounted, broken in to the saddle; endorsed, printed on the back; moved or laid back. (See the verb.)
| 1589 Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 15 Art thou so backt that none dare blade it with thee? c 1590 J. Burel Queen's Entry, Far better bakkit nor ane laird. 1611 Shakes. Cymb. v. i. 427 Great Iupiter, upon his Eagle back'd. 1692 Ray Dissol. World Pref. (1732) 12 Well back'd by Divine Authority. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Rot, Take the Horse, if he be about four Years old and back'd. 1846 Print. Appar. for Amateurs 42 When the paper is backed or has two impressions. |