Backwards

1. adv. In a contrary or reverse manner, way, or direction; contrarily; as, to read backwards.
2. adv. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.
3. adv. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward.
4. adv. On the back, or with the back downward.
5. adv. Toward, or in, past time or events; ago.
6. adv. By way of reflection; reflexively.
7. adv. From a better to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.