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- English Word Shorten Definition To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- English Word Shorten Definition To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
- English Word Shorten Definition To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
- English Word Shortened / Definition of Shorten
- English Word Shortener Definition One who, or that which, shortens.
- English Word Shortening Definition of Shorten
- English Word Shortening Definition The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
- English Word Shortening Definition That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
- English Word Shorthand Definition A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
- English Word Shorthead Definition A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
- English Word Shorthorn Definition One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
- English Word Shortly Definition In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
- English Word Shortly Definition In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
- English Word Shortness Definition The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.
- English Word Shortsighted Definition Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
- English Word Shortsighted Definition Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
- English Word Shortsighted Definition Having little regard for the future; heedless.
- English Word Shortstop Definition The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
- English Word Shortwing Definition Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
- English Word Shory Definition Lying near the shore.
- English Word Shoshones Definition A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
- English Word Shot Definition of Shoot
- English Word Shot Definition imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
- English Word Shot Definition Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
- English Word Shot Definition A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
- English Word Shot Definition of Shot
- English Word Shot Definition The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
- English Word Shot Definition A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
- English Word Shot Definition Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
- English Word Shot Definition The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.