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Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

Restringe :: Restringe (v. t.) To confine; to contract; to stringe.

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..

Compact :: Compact (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.

Affreightment :: Affreightment (n.) The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo..

Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.

Skim :: Skim (a.) Contraction of Skimming and Skimmed.

Wager :: Wager (v. t.) A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event..

Contractibility :: Contractibility (n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air..

Undertaker :: Undertaker (n.) One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor.

Moderation :: Moderation (n.) The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..

Marriage :: Marriage (v. t.) The marriage vow or contract.

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

Option :: Option (n.) A stipulated privilege, given to a party in a time contract, of demanding its fulfillment on any day within a specified limit..

Broker :: Broker (v. t.) An agent employed to effect bargains and contracts, as a middleman or negotiator, between other persons, for a compensation commonly called brokerage. He takes no possession, as broker, of the subject matter of the negotiation. He generally contracts in the names of those who employ him, and not in his own..

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail..

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

Condition :: Condition (n.) A clause in a contract, or agreement, which has for its object to suspend, to defeat, or in some way to modify, the principal obligation; or, in case of a will, to suspend, revoke, or modify a devise or bequest. It is also the case of a future uncertain event, which may or may not happen, and on the occurrence or non-occurrence of which, the accomplishment, recission, or modification of an obligation or testamentary disposition is made to depend..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

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