To participate in a contra dance.

(music) The octave directly below the great octave.

plural of contra dance

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contra dance

plural of contra-octave

(obsolete) A strong aromatic bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.

present participle of contra dance

plural of contra-trader

One who engages in contra-trading, a form of tax fraud.

A form of carousel fraud that evades detection by using two "carousels" of traded goods, where one carousel is legitimate and the other is not, and thus the input and output VATs neutralize each other to conceal the fraud.