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..

Contractible :: Contractible (a.) Capable of contraction.

Contractibleness :: Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.

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..

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

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

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..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) 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..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc..

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) 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..

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