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

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Insular :: Insular (a.) Of or pertaining to the people of an island; narrow; circumscribed; illiberal; contracted; as, insular habits, opinions, or prejudices..

Hire :: Hire (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay..

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..

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

Coronis :: Coronis (n.) In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable..

Constricted :: Constricted (a.) Drawn together; bound; contracted; cramped.

Johannes :: "Johannes (n.) A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe..

Proximo :: Proximo () In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo..

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

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..

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..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To become contracted; to shrink.

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..

Last :: Last (3d pers. sing. pres.) of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth..

Contracted :: Contracted (imp. & p. p.) of Contrac.

Superhuman :: Superhive (n.) A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.

Swown :: 'Swounds (interj.) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.

Negative :: Negative (a.) Metalloidal; nonmetallic; -- contracted with positive or basic; as, the nitro group is negative..

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