Back"hand` (?), n. [Back, adv. + hand.]

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

 

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Back"hand`, a.

1.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

2.

Backhanded; indirect; oblique.

[R.]

 

© Webster 1913.