Word Meanings - BUTTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who mines by contract, at so much per ton of coal or ore.

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• CONTRACTIBLE
  Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRACTED
  1. Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun. 2. Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views. 3. Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted
• CONTRACTIBLENESS
  Contractibility.
• CONTRACTION
  The process of shortening an operation. 3. 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. 4. Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word
• CONTRACTILITY
  The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening. Note: When subject to the will, as in the muscles of locomotion, such power is called voluntary contractility; when not controlled by the will, as in the muscles of
• CONTRACTIBILITY
  Capability of being contracted; quality of being contractible; as, the contractibiliy and dilatability of air. Arbuthnot.
• CONTRACTILE
  tending to contract; having the power or property of contracting, or of shrinking into shorter or smaller dimensions; as, the contractile tissues. The heart's contractile force. H. Brooke. Each cilium seems to be composed of contractile substance.
• CONTRACT
  To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one. Syn. -- To shorten; abridge; epitomize; narrow; lessen; condense; reduce; confine; incur; assume. (more info) con- + trahere to draw: cf.
• CONTRACTEDNESS
  The state of being contracted; narrowness; meannes; selfishness.
• CONTRACTURE
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• CONTRACTOR
  One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.
• CONTRACT SYSTEM
  1. The sweating system. 2. The system of employing convicts by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.
• CONTRACT TABLET
  A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
• CONTRACTIVE
  Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.
• DREAMINESS
  The state of being dreamy.
• SUBCONTRACTOR
  One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
• SLIMINESS
  The quality or state of being slimy.
• GEMMINESS
  The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.
• FILMINESS
  State of being filmy.
• ERMINES; ERMINOIS
  See 4
• CREAMINESS
  The quality of being creamy.
• CLAMMINESS
  State of being clammy or viscous.
• BEAMINESS
  The state of being beamy.
• STORMINESS
  The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.
• STEAMINESS
  The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.
• SUBCONTRACTED
  1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak.
• LIMINESS
  The state or quality of being limy.
• STREAMINESS
  The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
• LUMINESCENCE
  1. Any emission of light not ascribable directly to incandescence, and therefore occurring at low temperatures, as in phosphorescence and fluorescence or other luminous radiation resulting from vital processes, chemical action, friction,