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Close :: Close (v. t.) Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open..

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

Privy :: Privy (n.) A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party..

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

Enrheum :: Enrheum (v. i.) To contract a rheum.

Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death..

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

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

Dilate :: Dilate (v. t.) To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat..

Validity :: Validity (n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title..

Asystole :: Asystole (n.) A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

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..

''s :: 's () A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has.

Obligation :: Obligation (n.) That which obligates or constrains; the binding power of a promise, contract, oath, or vow, or of law; that which constitutes legal or moral duty..

Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views..

E''en :: E'en (adv.) A contraction for even. See Even.

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America..

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..

Scrivener :: Scrivener (n.) A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings.

Coz :: Coz (n.) A contraction of cousin.

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