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22924

 foreshorten
[.] FORESHORT'EN, v.t. In painting; to shorten figures for the sake of showing those behind.

22925

 foreshortening
[.] FORESHORT'ENING, n. In painting, the act of shortening figures for the sake of showing those behind. [.] The art of conveying to the mind the impression of the entire length of an object, when represented as viewed in an oblique or receding position.

45370

 redshort
[.] RED'SHORT, a. [red and short.] Brittle, or breaking short when red hot, as a metal; a term of workmen.

49841

 short
[.] 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 ...

49842

 short-breathed
[.] SHORT'-BREATHED, a. Having short breath or quick respiration.

49843

 short-jointed
[.] SHORT'-JOINTED, a. [short and joint.] A horse is said to be short-jointed when the pastern is to short.

49844

 short-lived
[.] 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.

49845

 short-sight
[.] SHORT-SIGHT, n. Short-sightedness; myopy; vision accurate only when the object is near.

49846

 short-sightedness
[.] 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, ...

49847

 short-waisted
[.] SHORT-WAISTED, a. [short and waist.] Having a short waist or body.

49848

 short-winded
[.] SHORT-WIND'ED, a. [short and wind.] Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick respiration; as asthmatic persons.

49849

 short-winged
[.] SHORT'-WINGED, a. [short and wing.] Having short wings; as a short-winged hawk.

49850

 short-witted
[.] SHORT-WIT'TED, a. Having little wit; not wise; of scanty intellect or judgement.

49851

 shorten
[.] 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. [.] ...

49852

 shortened
[.] SHORT'ENED, pp. Made shorter; abridged; contracted.

49853

 shortening
[.] SHORT'ENING, ppr. Making shorter; contracting. [.] SHORT'ENING, n. Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard.

49854

 shortly
... [.] SHORT'LY, ...

49855

 shortner
[.] SHORT'NER, n. He or that which shortens.

49856

 shortness
[.] 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 ...

49857

 shorts
[.] SHORTS, n. plu. The bran and coarse part of a meal. [Local.]

49858

 shortsighted
[.] 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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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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