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SHORT, a. [L. curtus.] 1. Not long; not having great length or extension; as a short distance; a short ferry; a short flight; a short piece of timber. The bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it. Is. 28. 2. Not extended in time; not of long duration. The triumphing of the wicked is short. Job 20. 3. Not of usual or suffifient length, reach or extent. Weak though I am of limb, and short of sight. Pope. 4. Not of long duration; repeated at small intervals of time; as short breath. 5. Not of adequate extent or quantity; not reaching the point demanded, desired or expected; as a quantity short of our expectations. Not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought. Milton. 6. Deficient; defective; imperfect. This account is short of the truth. 7. Not adequate; insufficient; scanty; as, provisions are short; a short allowance of water for the voyage. 8. Not sufficiently supplied; scantily furnished. the English were inferior in number, and grew short in their provisions. |
SHORT'-BREATHED, a. Having short breath or quick respiration. |
SHORT'-JOINTED, a. [short and joint.] A horse is said to be short-jointed when the pastern is to short. |
SHORT'-LIVED, a. [short and live.] Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion. |
SHORT-SIGHT, n. Short-sightedness; myopy; vision accurate only when the object is near. |
SHORT-SIGHTEDNESS, n. 1. A defect in vision, consisting in the inability to see things at a distance, or at the distance to which ssight normally extends. Short-sightedness is owing to the too great convexity of the crystaline humor of the eye, by which the rays of light are brought to a focus too soon, that is, before they reach the retina. 2. Defected or limited intellectual sight; inabilaty to see far into futurity or into things deep or abstruse. |
SHORT-WAISTED, a. [short and waist.] Having a short waist or body. |
SHORT-WIND'ED, a. [short and wind.] Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick respiration; as asthmatic persons. |
SHORT'-WINGED, a. [short and wing.] Having short wings; as a short-winged hawk. |
SHORT-WIT'TED, a. Having little wit; not wise; of scanty intellect or judgement. |
SHORTEN, v.t. short'n. 1. To make short in measure, extent or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. To abridge; to lessen; as, to shorten labor or work. 3. To curtail; as, to shorten the hair by clipping. 4. To cintract; to lessen; to diminish in extent or amount; as, to shorten sail; to shorten an allowance of provisions. 5. To confine; to restrain. Here where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain. Dryden. 6. To lop; to deprive. The youth-shortened of his ears. Dryden. SHORTEN, v.i. short'n. 1. To become short or shorter. The day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December. 2. To contract; as, a cord shortens by being wet; a metallic rod shortens by cold. |
SHORT'ENED, pp. Made shorter; abridged; contracted. |
SHORT'ENING, ppr. Making shorter; contracting. SHORT'ENING, n. Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard. |
SHORT'LY, adv. 1. Quickly; soon; in a little time. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In a few words; briefly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose. |
SHORT'NER, n. He or that which shortens. |
SHORT'NESS, n. 1. The quality of being short in space or time; little length or little duration; as the shortness of a journey or of distance; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of life. 2. Fewness of words; brevity; conciseness; as th eshortness of an essay. The prayers of the church, by reason of their shortness, are easy for the memory. 3. Want of reach or the power of retention; as the shortness of the memory. 4. Deficiency; imperfection; limited extent; as the shortness of our reason. |
SHORTS, n. plu. The bran and coarse part of a meal. [Local.] |
SHORT'SIGHTED, a. [short and sight.] 1. Not able to see far; having limited vision; in a literal sense. 2. Not able to look far into futurity; not able to understand things deep or remite; of limited intellect. |
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