CPage 389
- English Word Contraband Definition Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
- English Word Contraband Definition A negro slave, during the Civil War, escaped to, or was brought within, the Union lines. Such slave was considered contraband of war.
- English Word Contraband Definition Prohibited or excluded by law or treaty; forbidden; as, contraband goods, or trade.
- English Word Contraband Definition To import illegally, as prohibited goods; to smuggle.
- English Word Contraband Definition To declare prohibited; to forbid.
- English Word Contrabandism Definition Traffic in contraband goods; smuggling.
- English Word Contrabandist Definition One who traffics illegally; a smuggler.
- English Word Contrabass Definition Double bass; -- applied to any instrument of the same deep range as the stringed double bass; as, the contrabass ophicleide; the contrabass tuba or bombardon.
- English Word Contrabasso Definition The largest kind of bass viol. See Violone.
- English Word Contract Definition To draw together or nearer; to reduce to a less compass; to shorten, narrow, or lessen; as, to contract one's sphere of action.
- English Word Contract Definition To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
- English Word Contract Definition To bring on; to incur; to acquire; as, to contract a habit; to contract a debt; to contract a disease.
- English Word Contract Definition To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
- English Word Contract Definition To betroth; to affiance.
- English Word Contract Definition To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
- English Word Contract Definition 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.
- English Word Contract Definition To make an agreement; to covenant; to agree; to bargain; as, to contract for carrying the mail.
- English Word Contract Definition Contracted; as, a contract verb.
- English Word Contract Definition Contracted; affianced; betrothed.
- English Word Contract Definition 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.
- English Word Contract Definition A formal writing which contains the agreement of parties, with the terms and conditions, and which serves as a proof of the obligation.
- English Word Contract Definition The act of formally betrothing a man and woman.
- English Word Contracted Definition of Contract
- English Word Contracted Definition Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
- English Word Contracted Definition Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
- English Word Contracted Definition Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
- English Word Contractedness Definition The state of being contracted; narrowness; meanness; selfishness.
- English Word Contractibility Definition Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibility and dilatability of air.
- English Word Contractible Definition Capable of contraction.
- English Word Contractibleness Definition Contractibility.