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Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent. [Written also stiptic.] Styptic weed (Bot.), an American leguminous herb (Cassia occidentalis) closely related to the wild senna.

self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond. All the bishops subscribed the sentence. Milman.

A contraction of Supernumerary, in sense 2. [Theatrical Cant]

A removable upper part of a hive. The word is sometimes contracted to super.

n (Scots Law), a condition precedent, or a condition without the performance of which the contract can not be completed.

Contraction of Swollen, p. p. Milton.

An exclamation contracted from God's wounds; -- used as an oath. [Obs. or Archaic] Shak.

A contraction of syllables by suppressing some vowel or diphthong at the end of a word, before another vowel or diphthong; as, th' army, for the army. [Written also synaloepha.]

Imposing reciprocal obligations upon the parties; as, a synallagmatic contract. Bouvier.

To contract, as a word, by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; as, "Gloster" is a syncopated form of "Gloucester."

The act of syncopating; the contraction of a word by taking one or more letters or syllables from the middle; syncope.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synizesis.

A writing signed by both or all the parties to a contract or bond.

A contraction of two syllables into one; synecphonesis.

Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction and dilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.

The contraction of the heart and arteries by which the blood is forced onward and the circulation kept up; -- correlative to diastole.

Of or pertaining to systole, or contraction; contracting; esp., ralating to the systole of the heart; as, systolic murmur. Dunglison.

A colloquial contraction of the other, and formerly a contraction for that other. See the Note under That, 2. The tothir that was crucifield with him. Wyclif(John xix. 32)

objection. -- Tac"it*ly, adv. The tacit and secret theft of abusing our brother in civil contracts. Jer. Taylor.

A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease. Burrill.