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Stranger :: Stranger (n.) One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered merely as a pledge; a mere stranger to the levy..

Dartos :: Dartos (n.) A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneath the skin of the scrotum.

Contract :: Contract (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease..

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e..

Corrugator :: Corrugator (n.) A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Precontract :: Precontract (n.) A contract preceding anothe.

Origin :: Origin (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion.

Great :: Great (n.) The whole; the gross; as, a contract to build a ship by the great..

Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..

Precontract :: Precontract (v. t.) To contract, engage, or stipulate previously..

Shrink :: Shrink (v. i.) To express fear, horror, or pain by contracting the body, or part of it; to shudder; to quake..

I''ve :: I've () Colloquial contraction of I have.

Syncopation :: Syncopation (n.) The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

Stomatopod :: Stomatoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed..

Ditto :: Ditto (n.) The aforesaid thing; the same (as before). Often contracted to do., or to two turned commas (), or small marks. Used in bills, books of account, tables of names, etc., to save repetition..

Intercostal :: Intercostal (a.) Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

Faithful :: Faithful (a.) Firm in adherence to promises, oaths, contracts, treaties, or other engagements..

Lessen :: Lessen (v. i.) To become less; to shrink; to contract; to decrease; to be diminished; as, the apparent magnitude of objects lessens as we recede from them; his care, or his wealth, lessened..

Lesion :: Lesion (n.) Loss sustained from failure to fulfill a bargain or contract.

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