Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CON-TRACT'ILE
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CON-TRACT'ILE, a.
Tending to contract; having the power of shortening or of drawing into smaller dimensions; as, the contractile force of certain elastic bodies. – Darwin.
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