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Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant..

I''d :: I'd () A contraction from I would or I had.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments..

Apostrophize :: Apostrophize (p. pr. & vb. n.) To contract by omitting a letter or letters; also, to mark with an apostrophe (') or apostrophes..

Cosening :: Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

Eserine :: Eserine (n.) An alkaloid found in the Calabar bean, and the seed of Physostigma venenosum; physostigmine. It is used in ophthalmic surgery for its effect in contracting the pupil..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter..

Job :: "Job (v. t.) To do or cause to be done by separate portions or lots; to sublet (work); as, to job a contract..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die..

Laxator :: Laxator (n.) That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contraction loosens some part..

Usurious :: Usurious (a.) Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract..

Electro-muscular :: Electro-muscular (a.) Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it..

Narrowly :: Narrowly (adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.

Where''er :: Where'er (adv.) Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..

Subcontracted :: Subcontract (n.) A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract..

Negative :: Negative (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative..

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