To draw together so as to wrinkle; to knit.
To enter into a contract with.
To enter into, with mutual obligations; to make a bargain or covenant for.
To draw together or nearer; to shorten, narrow, or lessen.
To make an agreement or contract; to covenant; to agree; to bargain.
To betroth; to affiance.
To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.
To bring on; to incur; to acquire.
To gain or acquire (an illness).
An order, usually given to a hired assassin, to kill someone.
An agreement which the law will enforce in some way. A legally binding contract must contain at least one promise, i.e., a commitment or offer, by an offeror to and accepted by an offeree to do something in the future. A contract is thus executory rather than executed.
An agreement between two or more parties, to perform a specific job or work order, often temporary or of fixed duration and usually governed by a written agreement.
The document containing such an agreement.
A part of legal studies dealing with laws and jurisdiction related to contracts.
The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.
To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into.
A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations.
A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler.
A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet.
A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet.
An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset.