CONTRACTED

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Drawn together; shrunken; wrinkled; narrow; as, a contracted brow; a contracted noun.

2.
a.

Narrow; illiberal; selfish; as, a contracted mind; contracted views.

3.
a.

Bargained for; betrothed; as, a contracted peace. Inquire me out contracted bachelors. Shak.