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That which draws, or is used for drawing.

f an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

See Perkinism.

A tractrix.

One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne

One who contracts; one of the parties to a bargain; one who covenants to do anything for another; specifically, one who contracts to perform work on a rather large scale, at a certain price or rate, as in building houses or making a railroad.

One who detracts; a derogator; a defamer. His detractors were noisy and scurrilous. Macaulay.

Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious. Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, extracts; as:

An apparatus for drying anything, as yarn, cloth, sugar, etc., by centrifugal force; a centrifugal.

A muscle which extends an organ or part; -- opposed to retractor.

One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically:

One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.

A detractor; a slanderer. [Obs.] Shak.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

stance offered to the rifling. Also, a groove around the base of a cartridge, where the extractor takes hold. --Can"ne*lured (#), a.

ctice of cutting the instrument of contract in two, and giving one part to each of the contractors] (Com.), a mercantile lease of a vessel; a specific contract by which the owners of a vessel let the entire vessel, or some principal part of the vessel, to another person, to be used by the latter in transportation for h…

Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.

by selling their labor (to be performed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.

One who defames; a slanderer; a detractor; a calumniator.