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Contractile :: Contractile (a.) tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Assientist :: Assientist (n.) A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.

Merger :: Merger (n.) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater..

Cramp :: Cramp (v. t.) To compress; to restrain from free action; to confine and contract; to hinder.

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

Swom :: Swoln () Contraction of Swollen, p. p..

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

Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb..

Dilatable :: Dilatable (a.) Capable of expansion; that may be dilated; -- opposed to contractible; as, the lungs are dilatable by the force of air; air is dilatable by heat..

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..

Hit :: Hit () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hide, contracted from hideth..

Tendril :: Tendril (a.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally..

Contracture :: Contracture (n.) A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles..

Synneuroses :: Synizesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.

Stipulation :: Stipulate (v. i.) To make an agreement or covenant with any person or company to do or forbear anything; to bargain; to contract; to settle terms; as, certain princes stipulated to assist each other in resisting the armies of France..

Crasis :: Crasis (n.) A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a diphthong; synaeresis; as, cogo for coago..

Contract :: Contract (n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

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..

Assumpsit :: Assumpsit (n.) An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking..

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