CPage 584
- English Word Contract Definition A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
- English Word Contract Definition The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
- English Word Contracted Definition of Contract
- English Word Contracted Definition Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
- English Word Contracted Definition Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
- English Word Contracted Definition Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
- English Word Contractedness Definition The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
- English Word Contractibility Definition Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
- English Word Contractible Definition Capable of contraction.
- English Word Contractibleness Definition Contractibility.
- English Word Contractile Definition tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
- English Word Contractility Definition The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
- English Word Contractility Definition The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
- English Word Contracting Definition of Contract
- English Word Contraction Definition 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.
- English Word Contraction Definition The process of shortening an operation.
- English Word Contraction Definition The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
- English Word Contraction Definition Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
- English Word Contraction Definition The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
- English Word Contraction Definition A marriage contract.