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Contract
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
(2):
(n.) To betroth; to affiance.
(3):
(n.) The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(n.) To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
(6):
(n.) To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
(7):
(n.) A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
(8):
(n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(v. i.) To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
(11):
(a.) Contracted; as, a contract verb.
(12):
(a.) Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
(13):
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Contract'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/contract.html. 1828.
