Contract

·adj Contracted; as, a contract verb.

II. Contract ·adj Contracted; affianced; betrothed.

III. Contract ·noun The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.

IV. Contract ·noun To draw together so as to wrinkle; to Knit.

V. Contract ·noun To Betroth; to Affiance.

VI. Contract ·noun To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.

VII. Contract ·noun To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

VIII. Contract ·noun To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.

IX. Contract ·noun A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.

X. Contract ·noun To bring on; to Incur; to Acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.

XI. Contract ·vi To make an agreement; to Covenant; to Agree; to Bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.

XII. Contract ·vi 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.

XIII. Contract ·noun 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.