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To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

ord, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is.

ct of choosing; selection; choice. [Obs.] The first election and coöptation of a friend. Howell.

ty, power, etc. In this high court of parliament, there is a rare coördination of power. Howell.

bs.] He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell.

Glittering in flashes; flashing. Howell.

Belonging to cosmogony. B. Powell. Gladstone.

Retaining fecal matter in the bowels; having too slow a motion of the bowels; constipated.

An unnatural retention of the fecal matter of the bowels; constipation.

(b) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. [Obs.] Cowell.

rd, given in time of alarm as a signal. -- Counter plea (Law), a replication to a plea. Cowell. -- Counter pressure, force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction to some other opposing pressure. -- Counter project, a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation…

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

leap. Beaconsfield. Thackeray. The passengers eagerly craning forward over the bulwarks. Howells.

Crankness. Lowell.

Coarse, heavy, narrow linen cloth, used esp. for towels.

A contraction of two vowels (as the final and initial vowels of united words) into one long vowel, or into a dipthong; synæresis; as, cogo for coago.

Blackwood's Mag. Out of the stillness, with gathering creep, Like rising wind in leaves. Lowell.

The noise produced bu a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

aving short bends, turns, or wrinkles; wrinkled; wavy; zigzag. "The crinkled lightning." Lowell.

Belonging to a chamber or bedroom. [Obs.] Howell.