Definition of contract

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

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Ruffle :: Ruffle (v. t.) To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle..
Torose :: Torose (a.) Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.
Handfast :: Handfast (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
Astrict :: Astrict (v. t.) To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract.
Implement :: Implement (v. t.) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement..
Thirlage :: Thirlage (n.) The right which the owner of a mill possesses, by contract or law, to compel the tenants of a certain district, or of his sucken, to bring all their grain to his mill for grinding..
Whate''er :: Whate'er (pron.) A contraction of what-ever; -- used in poetry.
Whistle :: Whistle (v. i.) To make a kind of musical sound, or series of sounds, by forcing the breath through a small orifice formed by contracting the lips; also, to emit a similar sound, or series of notes, from the mouth or beak, as birds..
Contractibleness :: Contractibleness (n.) Contractibility.
Synallagmatic :: Synalepha (n.) A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army..
Put :: Put () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Put, contracted from putteth..
Crumple :: Crumple (v. i.) To contract irregularly; to show wrinkles after being crushed together; as, leaves crumple..
Electro-bioscopy :: Electro-bioscopy (n.) A method of determining the presence or absence of life in an animal organism with a current of electricity, by noting the presence or absence of muscular contraction..
Contract :: Contract (n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease..
Validity :: Validity (n.) Legal strength, force, or authority; that quality of a thing which renders it supportable in law, or equity; as, the validity of a will; the validity of a contract, claim, or title..
Provide :: Provide (v. t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done..
Betroth :: Betroth (v. t.) To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
Constrictor :: Constrictor (n.) A muscle which contracts or closes an orifice, or which compresses an organ; a sphincter..
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..
Pucker :: Pucker (v. t. & i.) To gather into small folds or wrinkles; to contract into ridges and furrows; to corrugate; -- often with up; as, to pucker up the mouth..
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