▪ I. hindward, a. rare.
(ˈhaɪndwəd)
[A recent formation from hind a. + -ward: cf. foreward. Cf. OE. hinderweard turned backward.]
1. Towards the rear; backward; posterior.
| 1797 Coleridge Sonn. On Ruined House 12 Thro' those brogues, still tatter'd and betorn, His hindward charms gleam an unearthly white. |
2. Backward in development or progress.
| 1868 Gladstone Juv. Mundi viii. §5 (1869) 258 This inactive and hindward deity. |
▪ II. ˈhindward, adv.
[cf. OE. hindanweard adv. ‘toward the farther end’.]
Backward; towards the rear or hinder part.
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter xxxix. 15 [xl. 14] Þai torne hind-ward, and schoned þai be. 1382 Wyclif Ps. lxix. 4 [lxx. 3] Be thei turned awei hindward, and waxe thei ashamed. c 1400 Destr. Troy 8553 He had hym of horse, hyndward anon. 18.. Walker (Cent.), The thorax has two furrows, which converge slightly hindward. |