Short () The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

Short () Short, inferior hemp.

Short () Breeches; shortclothes.

Short () A short sound, syllable, or vowel.

Short () In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.

Short () To shorten.

Short () To fail; to decrease.

Shortage () Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

Short-breathed () Having short-breath, or quick respiration.

Short-breathed () Having short life.

Shortcake () An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

Short circuit () A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.

Short-circuited () of Short-circuit

Short-circuiting () of Short-circuit

Short-circuit () To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

Shortclothes () Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

Shortcoming () The act of falling, or coming short

Shortcoming () The failure of a crop, or the like.

Shortcoming () Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.

Short-dated () Having little time to run from the date.

Shortened / () of Shorten

Shortening () of Shorten

Shorten () To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.

Shorten () 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.

Shorten () To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.

Shorten () To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.

Shorten () To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.

Shortener () One who, or that which, shortens.

Shortening () The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Shortening () That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.

Shorthand () A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

Short-handed () Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.

Shorthead () A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

Shorthorn () One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

Short-jointed () Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.

Short-lived () Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.

Shortly () In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.

Shortly () In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.

Shortness () 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.

Shortsighted () Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.

Shortsighted () Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.

Shortsighted () Having little regard for the future; heedless.

Short-spoken () Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.

Shortstop () The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

Short-waisted () Having a short waist.

Short-winded () Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.

Shortwing () 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.

Short-wited () Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.

Shory () Lying near the shore.

Shoshones () 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.

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