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Hence, a small space or a brief portion of time. Yet not to earth's contracted span Thy goodness let me bound. Pope. Life's but a span; I'll every inch enjoy. Farquhar.

traw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

That which is stipulated, or agreed upon; that which is definitely arranged or contracted; an agreement; a covenant; a contract or bargain; also, any particular article, item, or condition, in a mutual agreement; as, the stipulations of the allied powers to furnish each his contingent of troops.

Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

Contracted at irregular intervals, if tied with a ligature; constricted. Strangulated hernia. (Med.) See under Hernia.

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

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

ce, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston. Shak.

A contracted portion of a vessel, or of a passage way; as, the throat of a pitcher or vase.

unt is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

An infective sore mostly on the hands and feet, often contracted in walking on the veldt and apparently due to a specific microörganism.

systemic veins connected directly with the heart.-- Vena contracta. Etym: [L., literally, contracted vein.] (Hydraulics) The contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which it issues. -- Vena portæ; pl. VenÆ portæ. Etym: [L., literally, vein of the entrance.] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver.…

Contracted at intervals, so as to resemble the spine in animals. Henslow.

Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper.