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One who enters into a convention, covenant, or contract.

A glucoside occurring in jalap (the root of a convolvulaceous plant), and extracted as a colorless, tasteless, gummy mass of powerful purgative properties.

To contract violently and irregulary, as the muscular parts of an animal body; to shake with irregular spasms, as in excessive laughter, or in agony from grief or pain. With emotions which checked his voice and convulsed his powerful frame. Macaulay.

An unnatural, violent, and unvoluntary contraction of the muscular parts of an animal body.

To attempt to attract the notice, admiration, or love of; to treat with a show of tenderness or regard, with a view to deceive and disappoint. You are coquetting a maid of honor. Swift.

Attempts to attract admoration, notice, or love, for the mere gratification of vanity; trifling in love. "Little affectations of coquetry." Addison.

A vain, trifling woman, who endeavors to attract admiration from a desire to grafity vanity; a flirt; -- formerly sometimes applied also to men.

An extract from dogwood used as a febrifuge.

In Greek grammar, a sign ['] sometimes placed over a contracted syllable. W. W. Goodwin.

ghtly flattened, nucleated cells, mainly protoplasmic in composition, and possessed of contractile power. In man, the average size is about 1/2500 of an inch, and they are present in blood in much smaller numbers than the red corpuscles.

A poisonous alkaloid extracted from corroval, and characterized by its immediate action in paralyzing the heart.

Having the power of contracting into wrinkles. Johnson.

Wrinkled; crumpled; furrowed; contracted into ridges and furrows.

The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.

A muscle which contracts the skin of the forehead into wrinkles.

Drawing together; contracting; -- said of the corrugator. [Obs.]

, and which could not be properly designated by any special name, whether belonging to contracts or not. Burrill.

A fixed, semidrying oil extracted from cottonseed. It is pale yellow when pure (sp. gr., .92-.93). and is extensively used in soap making, in cookery, and as an adulterant of other oils.

A change of measures; alteration of conduct. Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom. T. Burnet.

A tract of land; a region; the territory of an independent nation; (as distinguished from any other region, and with a personal pronoun) the region of one's birth, permanent residence, or citizenship. Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred. Gen. xxxxii. 9. I might have learned this by my last exile, that change of…