Contracted

By the term contracted foot, otherwise known as hoof-bound, is indicated a condition in which the foot, more especially the posterior half of it, is, or becomes, narrower from side to side than is normal. ❋ Harry Caulton Reeks (N/A)

Chatelain tells us that in Lower Brittany he is called St. De, (contracted from the Latin word Aideus, or ❋ Alban Butler (N/A)

Gross margin contracted 70 basis points due mainly to higher commodity costs ❋ Heather Struck (2010)

It contends that his policy made it clear that transplants were covered only at certain contracted hospitals, and that he was not sick enough to qualify for an exception. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The administration will also hire 18 liaisons and two supervisors to work with caseworkers in contracted social service organizations to help streamline the process. ❋ Unknown (2010)

During the latest year ended Sept. 30, Westpac's net interest margin contracted 11 basis points on year to 2.22%, partly reflecting higher wholesale and retail deposit funding costs. ❋ Lyndal McFarland (2010)

Still of the belief there would be no recovery until 2011 or 2012, the aviation supply chain contracted to the point that Boeing's planned production increases don't take direct effect for another year or two. ❋ Rick Whittington (2010)

While the economies of U.S., Europe and Latin American contracted in 2009, Africa's grew. ❋ Will Connors (2011)

Mr. Schroeder expects Patriot to meet its contractual obligations through output from its other mines, with the closure of Harris affecting its sales into the spot market, where steelmakers go for immediate supplies beyond their longer-term contracted amounts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He and his staff chose a nickname that contracted mohawk and the Spanish word for feces. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Asimov died on April 6th, 1992 in New York at the age of 72 as a result of AIDs contracted from a blood transfusion received during a heart bypass operation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have to say that having experienced "La Turistas" on several past occasions, undoubtedly contracted from a variety of sources, I tend to be careful with our own food preparation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Janet Asimov -- Isaac's widow -- has released a new bio of her late husband, one of the founding fathers of science fiction, in which it's revealed that the Good Doctor died of AIDS, contracted from a blood transfusion during open heart surgery. ❋ Unknown (2002)

They sold, for weighty considerations of gold, castles in the air, imaginary benefices, ideal reversions; and, in short, contracted wholesale or retail for the punctual delivery of unadulterated moonshine. ❋ Various (N/A)

It was presumed that this had been contracted from the Turkish prisoners and their old camping grounds. ❋ S. J. Wilson (N/A)

Under its influence the loose Latin construction disappeared; articles and prepositions took the place of the inflectional terminations brought to a high state of artificial perfection in Latin; and the wholesale suppression of unaccented syllables had so contracted the Latin words that they were often scarcely recognizable. ❋ Robert Ezra Park (1926)

The impossibility of liquidating that debt (the motive for which it was contracted is to this hour unknown to me) rendered him desperate. ❋ Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1895)

Himself. undefiled -- not defiled by stain contracted from others, in relation to men. ❋ Unknown (1871)

"This contract represents a significant contribution to the economics and financibility of our projects and provides us with a significant source of long-term contracted revenue," Greengate Chief Executive Dan Balaban said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

At his college he lived for some time in the same chamber with the well-known Ford, by whom I have formerly heard him described as a contracted scholar and a mere versifier, unacquainted with life, and unskilful in conversation. ❋ Samuel Johnson (1746)