Index of English words, starting with "co"

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

(1) - Contracted (a.) Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace.
(2) - Contracted (a.) Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.
(3) - Contracted (a.) Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.
(4) - Contracted (imp. & p. p.) of Contract