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Shan''t :: Shan't () A contraction of shall not.

Vitiation :: Vitiation (n.) The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract..

Tester :: Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston..

Bipartite :: Bipartite (a.) Being in two parts; having two correspondent parts, as a legal contract or writing, one for each party; shared by two; as, a bipartite treaty..

Labial :: Labial (a.) Modified, as a vowel, by contraction of the lip opening, as / (f/d), / (/ld), etc., and as eu and u in French, and o, u in German. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 11, 178..

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

Enrheum :: Enrheum (v. i.) To contract a rheum.

Little :: Little (a.) Small in extent of views or sympathies; narrow; shallow; contracted; mean; illiberal; ungenerous.

Breach :: Breach (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise..

Ecbolic :: Ecbolic (n.) A drug, as ergot, which by exciting uterine contractions promotes the expulsion of the contents of the uterus..

Confederate :: Confederate (v. i.) To unite in a league; to join in a mutual contract or covenant; to band together.

Rounded :: Rounded (a.) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 11..

Bargainee :: Bargainee (v. i.) The party to a contract who receives, or agrees to receive, the property sold..

Hypothecate :: Hypothecate (v. t.) To subject, as property, to liability for a debt or engagement without delivery of possession or transfer of title; to pledge without delivery of possession; to mortgage, as ships, or other personal property; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry..

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

Cosening :: Cosening (n.) Anything done deceitfully, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not..

Precontracting :: Precontracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Precontrac.

Short :: Short (superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv..

Astringent :: Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc..

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..

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