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To make into a ruff; to draw or contract into puckers, plaits, or folds; to wrinkle.

reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not the contrary. She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. Pope.

To contract rust; to be become oxidized. If gold ruste, what shall iron do Chaucer. Our armors now may rust. Dryden.

ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.

or containing, ruthenium; designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.

A contraction for is or (colloquially) for has. "My heart's subdued." Shak.

The act of selling; the transfer of property, or a contract to transfer the ownership of property, from one person to another for a valuable consideration, or for a price in money.

which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

- - said of certain atoms, radicals, or compounds; thus, methane is a saturated compound. Contrasted with unsaturated.

and is reproachful to any person, or which derogates from the dignity of the court, or is contrary to good manners. Daniell.

To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat.

A professional writer; one whose occupation is to draw contracts or prepare writings. Shak. The writer better scrivener than clerk. Fuller.

earch private merchant vessels on the high seas, for the enemy's property or for articles contraband of war. -- Search warrant (Law), a warrant legally issued, authorizing an examination or search of a house, or other place, for goods stolen, secreted, or concealed.

sited, or pledged, to make certain the fulfillment of an obligation, the performance of a contract, the payment of a debt, or the like; surety; pledge. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

m; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with selenious compounds.

um; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with selenic compounds.

The act of contradicting one's self or itself; repugnancy in conceptions or in terms; a proposition consisting of two members, one of which contradicts the other; as, to be and not to be at the same time is a self-contradiction.

Contradicting one's self or itself.

Self-contradictory; inconsistent. Brougham.

aracterized by the presence of spermatozoids to which it owes its generative power. Semen contra, or Semen cinæ or cynæ, a strong aromatic, bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.