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Proximo :: Proximo () In the next month after the present; -- often contracted to prox.; as, on the 3d proximo..

Synedral :: Synecphonesis (n.) A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

Fidelity :: Fidelity (n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.

Intercostal :: Intercostal (a.) Between the ribs; pertaining to, or produced by, the parts between the ribs; as, intercostal respiration, in which the chest is alternately enlarged and contracted by the intercostal muscles..

Condition :: Condition (n.) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.

Impuberty :: Impuberty (n.) The condition of not having reached puberty, or the age of ability to reproduce one's species; want of age at which the marriage contract can be legally entered into..

Due :: Due (n.) That which is owed; debt; that which one contracts to pay, or do, to or for another; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done; a fee; a toll..

Forfeit :: Forfeit (n.) A thing forfeit or forfeited; what is or may be taken from one in requital of a misdeed committed; that which is lost, or the right to which is alienated, by a crime, offense, neglect of duty, or breach of contract; hence, a fine; a mulct; a penalty; as, he who murders pays the forfeit of his life..

Bail :: Bail (v./t.) To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier..

Incito-motor :: Incito-motor (a.) Inciting to motion; -- applied to that action which, in the case of muscular motion, commences in the nerve centers, and excites the muscles to contraction. Opposed to excito-motor..

Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb..

Astringency :: Astringency (n.) The quality of being astringent; the power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin..

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..

Contracted :: Contracted (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace..

Vaginismus :: Vaginismus (n.) A painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina, often rendering copulation impossible..

Handfast :: Handfast (a.) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.

Halt :: Halt () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth..

Insurance :: Insurance (n.) The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6..

Vingtun :: Vingtun (n.) Contraction for Vingt et un.

Convention :: Convention (v. i.) An agreement or contract less formal than, or preliminary to, a treaty; an informal compact, as between commanders of armies in respect to suspension of hostilities, or between states; also, a formal agreement between governments or sovereign powers; as, a postal convention between two governments..

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