Definition of contract

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

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Raid :: Raid (n.) An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury..
Muscle :: Muscle (n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion..
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..
Shrink :: Shrink (v. t.) To cause to contract or shrink; as, to shrink finnel by imersing it in boiling water..
Ratify :: Ratify (n.) To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or contract; to ratify a nomination..
Chevisance :: Chevisance (n.) A making of contracts.
Intake :: Intake (n.) the beginning of a contraction or narrowing in a tube or cylinder.
Photo :: Photo (n.) A contraction of Photograph.
Strangulation :: Strangulated (a.) Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted..
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..
Indenture :: Indenture (v. t.) To bind by indentures or written contract; as, to indenture an apprentice..
Indent :: Indent (v. t.) To bind out by indenture or contract; to indenture; to apprentice; as, to indent a young man to a shoemaker; to indent a servant..
Swown :: 'Swounds (interj.) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.
An't :: An't () A contraction for are and am not; also used for is not; -- now usually written ain't.
Shrivel :: Shrivel (v. t.) To cause to shrivel or contract; to cause to shrink onto corruptions.
Constringe :: Constringe (v. t.) To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; to constrict; to cause to shrink.
Hire :: Hire (n.) The price, reward, or compensation paid, or contracted to be paid, for the temporary use of a thing or a place, for personal service, or for labor; wages; rent; pay..
Ratihabition :: Ratihabition (n.) Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract..
Mortgage :: Mortgage (v. t.) To grant or convey, as property, for the security of a debt, or other engagement, upon a condition that if the debt or engagement shall be discharged according to the contract, the conveyance shall be void, otherwise to become absolute, subject, however, to the right of redemption..
''s :: 's () A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has.
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