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・ back-fire
・ backarack
・ backare
・ backband
・ backbite
・ backbiter
・ backbiting
・ backboard
・ backbond
backbone
・ backboned
・ backcast
・ backdoor
・ backdown
・ backed
・ backer
・ backfall
・ backfriend
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backbone : 英英辞書
Back"bone"
(-bn°), n.[2d back, n. + bone.]
1. The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.
2. Anything like, or serving the purpose of, a backbone.
The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country.
Darwin.
We have now come to the backbone of our subject.
Earle.
3. Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness.
Shelley's thought never had any backbone.
Shairp.
To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. "Staunch to the backbone." Lord Lytton.



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