Behind, in the rear of.
1774. He was ordered by the Selectmen round to the ferry, back of the Town, where the Cloaths were examined.—Boston Evening Post, April 11.
1774. Your Flails perpendicularly fixed just back of your right Arm.—Id., Oct. 3.
1801. [The body] was found in a coffin, back of Bushhill.—Mass. Spy, May 27.
1805. [I was] walking across the commons, back of the Roman chapple (sic).—Balt. Ev. Post, Sept. 5, p. 2/4.
1818. Many of [the meeting-houses in Kentucky] are built with a door back of the pulpit, so that the preacher may turn, and exhort those, who choose to lie grouped out on the grass.—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 97 (Boston, 1824).
1823. The prevailing timber on all the uplands, back of the Oak hills of the Ohio river, is beech, sugar maple, elm, and bass-wood, but interspersed with various other kinds.—Geo. W. Ogden, ‘Letters from the West,’ p. 76 (New Bedford).
1832. He saw a beautiful meadow, and flourishing grass cut on the declining hill back of the City Hall towards the Kolch.—Watson, ‘Historic Tales of New York,’ p. 92.
1837. On remodelling the store, the money supposed to have been stolen, was found safely deposited in a rat’s nest, back of the drawer!—H. Newcomb, ‘The Negro Pew,’ pp. 12–3 (Boston). (Italics in the original.)
1910. Back of this provision of equal and uniform taxation in the constitution is the oldest experience that men have had in affairs of government and of justice.—The Oregonian, August.
