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Rit :: Rit () 3d pers. sing. pres. of Ride, contracted from rideth..

Where''er :: Where'er (adv.) Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form.

Contract :: Contract (a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Swown :: 'Swounds (interj.) An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath.

Open :: Open (a.) Not drawn together, closed, or contracted; extended; expanded; as, an open hand; open arms; an open flower; an open prospect..

Throat :: Throat (n.) A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase..

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

Constricted :: Constricted (a.) Contracted or compressed so as to be smaller in certain places or parts than in others.

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

Apostrophe :: Apostrophe (n.) The mark ['] used to denote that a word is contracted (as in ne'er for never, can't for can not), and as a sign of the possessive, singular and plural; as, a boy's hat, boys' hats. In the latter use it originally marked the omission of the letter e..

Precontracted :: Precontracted (imp. & p. p.) of Precontrac.

Mistress :: Mistress (n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman..

Moderation :: Moderation (n.) The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

Subcontracted :: Subcontracted (a.) Contracted after a former contract.

Incontracted :: Incontracted (a.) Uncontracted.

Circumflex :: Circumflex (n.) A character, or accent, denoting in Greek a rise and of the voice on the same long syllable, marked thus [~ or /]; and in Latin and some other languages, denoting a long and contracted syllable, marked [/ or ^]. See Accent, n., 2..

Stomatopod :: Stomatoplastic (a.) Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed..

Antecedent :: Antecedent (n.) The first of the two propositions which constitute an enthymeme or contracted syllogism; as, Every man is mortal; therefore the king must die..

Vertebrated :: Vertebrated (a.) Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals..

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