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Shrink :: Shrink (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water..

Handfast :: Handfast (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.

Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.

Provision :: Provision (n.) That which is stipulated in advance; a condition; a previous agreement; a proviso; as, the provisions of a contract; the statute has many provisions..

Narrowly :: Narrowly (adv.) Without much extent; contractedly.

Tuck :: Tuck (v. i.) To contract; to draw together.

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

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..

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

Arctation :: Arctation (n.) Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation..

Pearlstone :: Pearlstone (n.) A glassy volcanic rock of a grayish color and pearly luster, often having a spherulitic concretionary structure due to the curved cracks produced by contraction in cooling. See Illust. under Perlitic..

Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle..

Stipulation :: Stipulation (n.) The act of stipulating; a contracting or bargaining; an agreement.

Ammeter :: Ammeter (n.) A contraction of amperometer or amperemeter.

Donation :: Donation (n.) The act or contract by which a person voluntarily transfers the title to a thing of which be is the owner, from himself to another, without any consideration, as a free gift..

Preengage :: Preengage (v. t.) To engage by previous contract; to bind or attach previously; to preoccupy.

Corrugation :: Corrugation (n.) The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

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

Precontracted :: Precontracted (imp. & p. p.) of Precontrac.

Contracting :: Contracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contrac.

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