Definition of contract

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

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Wrinkle :: Wrinkle (n.) A small ridge, prominence, or furrow formed by the shrinking or contraction of any smooth substance; a corrugation; a crease; a slight fold; as, wrinkle in the skin; a wrinkle in cloth..
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.
Trace :: Trace (v. t.) A very small quantity of an element or compound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis; -- hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr..
Rist :: Rist () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth..
Bargain :: Bargain (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow..
Narrow :: Narrow (v. t.) To lessen the breadth of; to contract; to draw into a smaller compass; to reduce the width or extent of.
Contractibleness :: Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.
Nudum Pactum :: Nudum pactum () A bare, naked contract, without any consideration..
Rigor :: Rigor (n.) A sense of chilliness, with contraction of the skin; a convulsive shuddering or tremor, as in the chill preceding a fever..
Photo :: Photo (n.) A contraction of Photograph.
Contracture :: Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles..
Instrument :: Instrument (n.) A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc..
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..
Hiccough :: Hiccough (n.) A modified respiratory movement; a spasmodic inspiration, consisting of a sudden contraction of the diaphragm, accompanied with closure of the glottis, so that further entrance of air is prevented, while the impulse of the column of air entering and striking upon the closed glottis produces a sound, or hiccough..
Superhuman :: Superhive (n.) A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.
Chromatophore :: Chromatophore (n.) A contractile cell or vesicle containing liquid pigment and capable of changing its form or size, thus causing changes of color in the translucent skin of such animals as possess them. They are highly developed and numerous in the cephalopods..
I''d :: I'd () A contraction from I would or I had.
Intake :: Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
Constringe :: Constringe (v. t.) To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
Divorce :: Divorce (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii..
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