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- 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.
- 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.
- Contracted - imp. & p. p. - of Contract
- 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.
- Contractedness - n. - The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
- 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.
- Contractile - a. - tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues.
- Contractility - n. - The quality or property by which bodies shrink or contract.
- Contractility - n. - The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.
- Contracting - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Contract
- Term - n. - Propositions or promises, as in contracts, which, when assented to or accepted by another, settle the contract and bind the parties; conditions.
- Procrusteanize - v. t. - To stretch or contract according to some rule or standard.
- Location - n. - A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- Cockle - v. t. - To cause to contract into wrinkles or ridges, as some kinds of cloth after a wetting.
- 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.
- Espousal - n. - The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
- Constrict - v. t. - To draw together; to render narrower or smaller; to bind; to cramp; to contract or cause to shrink.
- Narrow - v. t. - To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
- Implement - v. t. - To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
- Affreightment - n. - The act of hiring, or the contract for the use of, a vessel, or some part of it, to convey cargo.
- Abridge - v. t. - To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary.
- Purse - v. t. - To draw up or contract into folds or wrinkles, like the mouth of a purse; to pucker; to knit.
- Privy - n. - A partaker; a person having an interest in any action or thing; one who has an interest in an estate created by another; a person having an interest derived from a contract or conveyance to which he is not himself a party. The term, in its proper sense, is distinguished from party.
- Affiancer - n. - One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons.
- Guaranty - n. - In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for the payment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, of another, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; a guarantee; a warranty; a security.
- 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.
- Knit - v. t. - To draw together; to contract into wrinkles.
- 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.
- Moule - v. i. - To contract mold; to grow moldy; to mold.
- Rust - v. i. - To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
- Betroth - v. t. - To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
- Partnership - n. - A contract between two or more competent persons for joining together their money, goods, labor, and skill, or any or all of them, under an understanding that there shall be a communion of profit between them, and for the purpose of carrying on a legal trade, business, or adventure.
- 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.
- Hypothecation - n. - A contract whereby, in consideration of money advanced for the necessities of the ship, the vessel, freight, or cargo is made liable for its repayment, provided the ship arrives in safety. It is usually effected by a bottomry bond. See Bottomry.
- Precontract - n. - a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it.
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- G302 ἄν - 302 ἄν - ἌΝ - - án - an - a primary particle, denoting a supposition, wish, possibility or uncertainty:--(what-, where-, wither-, who-)soever. Usually unexpressed except by the subjunctive or potential mood. Also contracted for ἐάν. - - greek
- G869 ἄφνω - 869 ἄφνω - ἌΦΝΩ - - áphnō - af'-no - adverb from ἀφανής (contraction); unawares, i.e. unexpectedly:--suddenly. - Adverb - greek
- H5620 סַר - 5620 סַר - סַר - - çar - sar - contracted from סָרַר; peevish; heavy, sad. - Adjective - heb
- G1762 ἔνι - 1762 ἔνι - ἜΝΙ - - éni - en'-ee - contraction for the third person singular present indicative of ἔνειμι; impersonally, there is in or among:--be, (there) is. - Verb - greek
- H5962 עַלְמִי - 5962 עַלְמִי - עַלְמִי - - ʻAlmîy - al-mee' - (Aramaic) patrial from a name corresponding to עֵילָם contracted; an Elamite or inhabitant of Elam; Elamite. - Noun - x-pn
- H5707 עֵד - 5707 עֵד - עֵד - - ʻêd - ayd - contracted from עוּד; concretely, a witness; abstractly, testimony; specifically, a recorder, i.e. prince; witness. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H5842 עֵט - 5842 עֵט - עֵט - - ʻêṭ - ate - from עִיט (contracted) in the sense of swooping, i.e. side-long stroke; a stylus or marking stick; pen. - Noun Masculine - heb
- H85 אַבְרָהָם - 85 אַבְרָהָם - אַבְרָהָם - - ʼAbrâhâm - ab-raw-hawm' - contracted from אָב and an unused root (probably meaning to be populous); father of a multitude; Abraham, the later name of Abram; Abraham. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H87 אַבְרָם - 87 אַבְרָם - אַבְרָם - - ʼAbrâm - ab-rawm' - contracted from אֲבִירָם; high father; Abram, the original name of Abraham; Abram. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H256 אַחְאָב - 256 אַחְאָב - אַחְאָב - - ʼAchʼâb - akh-awb' - once (by contraction) אֶחָב (Jeremiah 29:22); from אָח and אָב; brother (i.e. friend) of (his) father; Achab, the name of a king of Israel and of a prophet at Babylon; Ahab. - - x-pn
- H126 אַדְמָה - 126 אַדְמָה - אַדְמָה - - ʼAdmâh - ad-maw' - contracted for אֲדָמָה; earthy; Admah, a place near the Dead Sea; Admah. - Proper Name Location - x-pn
- H151 אֲדֹרָם - 151 אֲדֹרָם - אֲדֹרָם - - ʼĂdôrâm - ad-o-rawm' - contracted for אֲדֹנִירָם; Adoram (or Adoniram), an Israelite; Adoram. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H575 אָן - 575 אָן - אָן - - ʼân - awn - or אָנָה; contracted from אַיִן; where?; hence, whither?, when?; also hither and thither; [phrase] any (no) whither, now, where, whither(-soever). - Adverb - heb
- H579 אָנָה - 579 אָנָה - אָנָה - - ʼânâh - aw-naw' - a primitive root (perhaps rather identical with אָנָה through the idea of contraction in anguish); to approach; hence, to meet in various senses; befall, deliver, happen, seek a quarrel. - Verb - heb
- H589 אֲנִי - 589 אֲנִי - אֲנִי - - ʼănîy - an-ee' - lemma אֲנַי second vowel, corrected to אֲנִי; contracted from אָנֹכִי; I; I, (as for) me, mine, myself, we, [idiom] which, [idiom] who. - - heb
- H577 אָנָּא - 577 אָנָּא - אָנָּא - - ʼânnâʼ - awn-naw' - lemma אָנּאָ second vowel, corrected to אָנָּא; or אָנָּה; apparent contracted from אַהֲבָה and נָא; oh now!; I (me) beseech (pray) thee, O. - Interjection - heb
- H580 אֲנוּ - 580 אֲנוּ - אֲנוּ - - ʼănûw - an-oo' - contracted for אֲנַחְנוּ; we; we. - - heb
- H830 אַשְׁפֹּת - 830 אַשְׁפֹּת - אַשְׁפֹּת - - ʼashpôth - ash-pohth' - or אַשְׁפּוֹת; or שְׁפֹת; (contraction) plural of a noun of the same form as אַשְׁפָּה, from שָׁפָה (in the sense of scraping); a heap of rubbish or filth; dung (hill). - Noun Masculine - heb
- H839 אֲשֻׁר - 839 אֲשֻׁר - אֲשֻׁר - - ʼăshur - ash-oor' - contracted for תְּאַשּׁוּר; the cedar tree or some other light elastic wood; Ashurite. - Noun Feminine - heb
- H331 אָטַם - 331 אָטַם - אָטַם - - ʼâṭam - aw-tam' - a primitive root; to close (the lips or ears); by analology to contract (a window by bevelled jambs); narrow, shut, stop. - Verb - heb
- H857 אָתָה - 857 אָתָה - אָתָה - - ʼâthâh - aw-thaw' - or אָתָא; a primitive root (collateral to אוּת contraction); to arrive; (be-, things to) come (upon), bring. - Verb - heb
- H680 אָצַל - 680 אָצַל - אָצַל - - ʼâtsal - aw-tsal' - a primitive root; properly, to join; used only as a denominative from אֵצֶל; to separate; hence, to select, refuse, contract; keep, reserve, straiten, take. - Verb - heb
- H43 אֶבְיָסָף - 43 אֶבְיָסָף - אֶבְיָסָף - - ʼEbyâçâph - eb-yaw-sawf' - contracted from אֲבִיאָסָף; Ebjasaph, an Israelite; Ebiasaph. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H54 אֶבְיָתָר - 54 אֶבְיָתָר - אֶבְיָתָר - - ʼEbyâthâr - ab-yaw-thawr' - contracted from אָב and יָתַר; father of abundance (i.e. liberal); Ebjathar, an Israelite; Abiathar. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn
- H477 אֱלִישָׁע - 477 אֱלִישָׁע - אֱלִישָׁע - - ʼĔlîyshâʻ - el-ee-shaw' - contracted for אֱלִישׁוּעַ.; Elisha, the famous prophet; Elisha. - Proper Name Masculine - x-pn