Definition of contract

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

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Corrugation :: Corrugation (n.) The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
Convulsion :: Convulsion (n.) An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body..
Contractive :: Contractive (a.) Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Knight Marshal :: Knight marshal () An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties..
Constricted :: Constricted (a.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.
Stunted :: Stunsail (n.) A contraction of Studding sail.
Rust :: Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
Systolic :: Systole (n.) The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.
Ana :: Ana (adv.) Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or, contracted, aa), / ij., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces..
Crimple :: Crimple (v. t.) To cause to shrink or draw together; to contract; to curl.
Tensive :: Tensive (a.) Giving the sensation of tension, stiffness, or contraction..
Narrower :: Narrower (n.) One who, or that which, narrows or contracts..
Divorce :: Divorce (n.) A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii..
Spacious :: Spacious (n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall..
Atony :: Atony (n.) Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile..
E''en :: E'en (adv.) A contraction for even. See Even.
Upgather :: Upgather (v. t.) To gather up; to contract; to draw together.
Syncopate :: Syncopate (v. t.) To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, Gloster is a syncopated form of Gloucester..
Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..
Covenant :: Covenant (n.) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.
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