Definition of contract

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Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

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Contrahent :: Contrahent (a.) Entering into covenant; contracting; as, contrahent parties..
Contractedness :: Contractedness (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
Warranter :: Warranter (n.) One who assures, or covenants to assure; one who contracts to secure another in a right, or to make good any defect of title or quality; one who gives a warranty; a guarantor; as, the warranter of a horse..
Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.
Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Procrusteanize :: Procrusteanize (v. t.) To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.
Proposal :: Proposal (n.) The offer by a party of what he has in view as to an intended business transaction, which, with acceptance, constitutes a contract..
Contracting :: Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrac.
Thomsen''s Disease :: Thomsen's disease () An affection apparently congenital, consisting in tonic contraction and stiffness of the voluntary muscles occurring after a period of muscular inaction..
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..
Lixt :: Lixt () 2d pers. sing. pres. of Lige, to lie, to tell lies, -- contracted for ligest..
Ammeter :: Ammeter (n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.
Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done..
Knit :: Knit (v. t.) To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
Soph :: Soph (n.) A contraction of Sophomore.
Corrugate :: Corrugate (v. t.) To form or shape into wrinkles or folds, or alternate ridges and grooves, as by drawing, contraction, pressure, bending, or otherwise; to wrinkle; to purse up; as, to corrugate plates of iron; to corrugate the forehead..
Enrheum :: Enrheum (v. i.) To contract a rheum.
Astringent :: Astringent (a.) Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit..
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..
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