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▪ 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.
1797Coleridge 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.
1868Gladstone 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.
a1300E.E. Psalter xxxix. 15 [xl. 14] Þai torne hind-ward, and schoned þai be. 1382Wyclif Ps. lxix. 4 [lxx. 3] Be thei turned awei hindward, and waxe thei ashamed. c1400Destr. Troy 8553 He had hym of horse, hyndward anon. 18..Walker (Cent.), The thorax has two furrows, which converge slightly hindward. |