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n. A setback or reversal.

n. An eddy or countercurrent in water.

v. To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

n. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

n. Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.

v. To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

To set upon in the rear.

To plow again, in the autumn, prairie-land which has been plowed for the first time in the preceding spring.

n. A setting back or backward, as the result of some untoward circumstance or opposing agency; a check to progress; retardation, or the losing of ground; a relapse: as, he suffered more than one serious backset; a backset which appeared to be fatal.

n. An eddy or counter-current in flowing water.

n. In lock-making, the horizontal distance between the front of the lock and the center of the keyhole: an essential measurement in lock-fitting.

"One also has to consider that the last two weeks of the primaries will be over the holidays, when the hardcore campaigning will probably take a backset to more positive stuff."

check    relapse    discouragement    setback