CONTRACT SYSTEM
Con"tract sys"tem.
1. The sweating system.
2. The system of employing convicts 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.
CONTRACT TABLET
Con"tract tablet. (Babylonian & Assyrian Antiq.)
Defn: A clay tablet on which was inscribed a contract, for safe keeping. Such tablets were inclosed in an outer case (often called the envelope), on which was inscribed a duplicate of the inscription on the inclosed tablet.
CONTRACTURE
Con*trac"ture, n. Etym: [L. contractura a drawing together.] (Med.)
Defn: A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
CONTRADANCE
Con"tra*dance`, n. Etym: [Pref. contra- + dance: cf. F. contrdance.
Cf. Country-dance.]
Defn: A dance in which the partners are arranged face to face, or in opposite lines.
CONTRADICT
Con`tra*dict", v. t. [imp. & p.p. Contradicted; p.pr. & vb.n
Contradicting.] Etym: [L. contradictus, p.p. of contradicere to speak
against; contra + dicere to speak. See Diction.]