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p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shorten
a.
Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
a.
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
adv.
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
n.
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.
n.
One who, or that which, shortens.
a.
To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
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To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
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Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
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To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
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One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
v. i.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
adv.
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
a.
Having a short waist.
n.
The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
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Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
n.
A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
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Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
n.
That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
n.
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.
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