Word Meanings - CONTRACTTABLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Inscriber
  One who inscribes.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Contractor
  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.
• Inscription
  The act or process of inscribing.
• Whichever
  Alt. of Whichsoever
• Calliope
  The Muse that presides over eloquence and heroic poetry; mother of Orpheus, and chief of the nine Muses.
• Callous
  Hardened; indurated.
• Contracture
  A state of permanent rigidity or contraction of the muscles, generally of the flexor muscles.
• Keeping
  of Keep
• Whichsoever
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one (of two or more) which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• Calliopsis
  A popular name given to a few species of the genus Coreopsis, especially to C. tinctoria of Arkansas.
• Duplicate
  Double; twofold.
• CALLIGRAPHICCALLIGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy. Excellence in the calligraphic act. T. Warton.
• Calling
  of Call
• Callipash
  See Calipash.

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