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