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- English Word Shore Definition The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river.
- English Word Shore Definition To set on shore.
- English Word Shore Definition of Shear
- English Word Shored Definition of Shore
- English Word Shoreless Definition Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean.
- English Word Shoreling Definition See Shorling.
- English Word Shorer Definition One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore.
- English Word Shoreward Definition Toward the shore.
- English Word Shoring Definition of Shore
- English Word Shoring Definition The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore.
- English Word Shoring Definition A system of props; props, collectively.
- English Word Shorl Definition Alt. of Shorlaceous
- English Word Shorlaceous Definition See Schorl, Schorlaceous.
- English Word Shorling Definition The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing.
- English Word Shorling Definition A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
- English Word Shorn Definition p. p. of Shear.
- English Word Shorn Definition of Shear
- English Word Short Definition Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
- English Word Short Definition Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
- English Word Short Definition Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
- English Word Short Definition Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
- English Word Short Definition Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
- English Word Short Definition Not distant in time; near at hand.
- English Word Short Definition Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
- English Word Short Definition Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
- English Word Short Definition Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
- English Word Short Definition Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
- English Word Short Definition Brittle.
- English Word Short Definition Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
- English Word Short Definition Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.