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A detractor.

One who detracts; a detractor. Other detracters and malicious writers. Sir T. North.

Containing detraction; detractory. [R.] Johnson.

Tending to detractor draw. [R.]

A female detractor. Addison.

A drawing instrument, combining a protractor and scale.

Not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor. --Non*un"ion*ism (#), n.

g the pointed extremities of two rods, each of a different metal, over the affected part; tractoration, -- first employed by Dr. Elisha Perkins of Norwich, Conn. See Metallotherapy.

roadbed and superstructure of a finished railway; -- so called in distinction from the contractor's temporary way. -- Permanent white (Chem.), barium sulphate (heavy spar), used as a white pigment or paint, in distinction from white lead, which tarnishes and darkens from the formation of the sulphide.…

To draw to a scale; to lay down the lines and angles of, with scale and protractor; to plot.

A protractor.

ing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. [Colloq. U. S.]

One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.

One who stipulates or covenants to perform any work for another; a contractor. To sign deputations for undertakes to furnish their proportions of saltpeter. Evelyn. In come some other undertakes, and promise us the same or greater wonders. South.