Backward; towards the rear or hinder part.

Towards the rear, backwards. (With look or equivalent verbs.)

In the direction which, so far as concerns one's general or ordinary position, is behind one, or from which one is moving, e.g. to look, turn the head…

Of direction: Backward, to the rear, behind, into the background.

In the wrong direction, in the wrong way. In a backward direction, with a back stroke.

In the direction that is behind.

Backward.

Away from what is treated as the front; from the actual or ordinary position.

In a backward direction.

Towards the rear; backward.

Toward the tail; also quasi-n. (with to, from), the direction in which the tail is.

Backwardly.

In a backward direction.

= rearward, adv. 1.

Backwards.