From back + set. <span class="searchmatch">backset</span> (plural <span class="searchmatch">backsets</span>) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water. (Can...
<span class="searchmatch">backsets</span> third-person singular simple present indicative of <span class="searchmatch">backset</span> setbacks, sets back...
backets plural of backet backest, <span class="searchmatch">backset</span>, set back, setback...
backsetting present participle and gerund of <span class="searchmatch">backset</span> backtesting, setting back...
final or closing word; conclusion. 1878, The Academy and literature: The <span class="searchmatch">backset</span> of the endsay is alwayes the generall terme. epilogue, postamble; see also...
sets back third-person singular simple present indicative of set back <span class="searchmatch">backsets</span>, setbacks...
documentation existed to support it. (possibly archaic) A <span class="searchmatch">backset</span>; a countercurrent; an eddy. (archaic) A <span class="searchmatch">backset</span>; a check; a repulse; a relapse. turn a setback...
(archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of back backets, <span class="searchmatch">backset</span>, set back, setback backest second-person singular subjunctive I of backen...
surround with difficulties; bar; impede. Synonyms: bebay, beleaguer, encircle <span class="searchmatch">backset</span> and forset (transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overpower; give...