Contra :: Contra () A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary, in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition of many English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref..

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Illegal or prohibited traffic.

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.

Contraband :: Contraband (n.) A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war..

Contraband :: Contraband (a.) Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade..

Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle..

Contraband :: Contraband (v. t.) To declare prohibited; to forbid.

Contrabandism :: Contrabandism (n.) Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.

Contrabandist :: Contrabandist (n.) One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.

Contrabass :: Contrabass (n.) Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon..

Contrabasso :: Contrabasso (n.) The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.

Contract :: Contract (n.) To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action..

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

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

Contract :: Contract (n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for..

Contract :: Contract (n.) To betroth; to affiance.

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

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet..

Contract :: Contract (v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail..

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

Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Contract :: Contract (n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights..

Contract :: Contract (n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation..

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

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

Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun..

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

Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace..

Contractedness :: Contractedness (n.) The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.

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

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