backcast

& s. ( Scotch.) A. As adjective : Retrospective. "I'll often kindly think on you And on our happy days and nights, With pleasing back - cast view, Tanna hill: Poems , pp. 96, 97. (Jamie son.) B. As substantive: Anything which throws one back from a state of prosperity to one of adversity. "They'll get a back - cast o' his hand yet, that think so muckle of the creature and see little o' the Creator." -Scott : Tales of my Landlord.