backberinde, back be rend

[A.S. brc - berende = taking on the back; boc back, and berende, from beran = to bear.] Old Law: Bearing upon the back. (Used specially when a man was apprehended bearing upon his back a deer which he had illegally shot.) băck-bīte (pret. băck'-bit, pa. par. băck'bit-ten), v.t. & i. [Eng. back & bitc.] A. Transitive : Literally: To bite on the back, as a dog coming treacherously behind one might do; but used figuratively, meaning = to attack the character of the absent, censuring or slandering them behind their backs. "Most untruly and maliciously do these evil tongues backbite and slander the sacred ashes of that personage."-Spenser. B. Intransitive: To speak disparagingly, if not even slanderously, of the absent. "He that backbit eth not with his tongue..."Pa. xv. 3.