[f. BACK adv. + CAST pple.] Cast or thrown backwards.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 272. With many a backe-cast looke.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, II. App. lxxxviii. Backcast tayls [of comets] turn’d to our Evening-eye.
1821. Joanna Baillie, Met. Leg., Lady G. B., li. 3. Which to her back-cast thoughts could bring The scenes of other days.
