Word Meanings - WHERE'ER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.
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- COWPER'S GLANDS
Two small glands discharging into the male urethra. - WHEREVER
At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury. - 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 - POETICALLY
In a poetic manner. - 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. - SUBCONTRACTOR
One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor. - SUBCONTRACTED
1. Contracted after a former contract. 2. Betrothed for the second time. Shak. - INCONTRACTED
Uncontracted. Blackwall. - SUBCONTRACT
A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.