Contract(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
Contract(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
Contract(n.) The agreement of two or more persons, upon a sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain from doing, some act; an agreement in which a party undertakes to do, or not to do, a particular thing; a formal bargain; a compact; an interchange of legal rights.
Contract(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
Contract(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
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.
Contract(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
Contract(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
Contract(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
Contract(n.) To betroth; to affiance.
Contract(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
Contract(v. i.) To be drawn together so as to be diminished in size or extent; to shrink; to be reduced in compass or in duration; as, iron contracts in cooling; a rope contracts when wet.
Contract(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
Contracted(a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
Contracted(a.) Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
Contracted(a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
Contracted(imp. & p. p.) of Contract
Contractibility(n.) Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
Contractible(a.) Capable of contraction.
Contractibleness(n.) Contractibility.
Contracting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Contract
Contraction(n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold.
Contraction(n.) The process of shortening an operation.
Contraction(n.) The act of incurring or becoming subject to, as liabilities, obligation, debts, etc.; the process of becoming subject to; as, the contraction of a disease.
Contraction(n.) Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.
Contraction(n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.
Contraction(n.) A marriage contract.
Contractive(a.) Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
Words within contracts