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adv.
In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
a.
Having a short waist.
a.
Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
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.
n.
One who, or that which, shortens.
n.
That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
a.
Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
adv.
In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
a.
One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shorten
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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.
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.
a.
To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
n.
The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
a.
Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
v. i.
To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
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Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
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.
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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