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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 himself on it. Isa 28.
2. Not extended in time; not of long duration.
The triumphing of the wicked is short. Job 20.
3. Not of usual or sufficient 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.
Hayward.
9. Not far distant in time; future.
He commanded those who were appointed to attend him, to be ready by a short day. Clarendon.
10. Not fetching a compass; as in the phrase, to turn short.
11. Not going to the point intended; as, to stop short.
12. Defective in quantity; as sheep short of their wool.
13. Narrow; limited; not extended; not large or comprehensive.
Their own short understandings reach
No farther than the present. Rowe.
14. Brittle; friable; breaking all at once without splinters or shatters; as marl so short that it cannot be wrought into a ball.
15. Not bending.
The lance broke short. Dryden.
16. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; severe. I asked him a question, to which he gave a short answer.
To be short, to be scantily supplied; as, to be short of bread or water.
To come short, to fail; not to do what is demanded or expected, or what is necessary for the purpose; applied to persons. We all come short of perfect obedience to God's will.
2. Not to reach or obtain.
3. To fail; to be insufficient. Provisions come short.
To cut short, to abridge; to contract; to make to small or defective; also, ot destroy or consume.
To fall short, to fail; to be inadequate or scanty; as, provisions fall short; money falls short.
2. To fail; not to do or accomplish; as, to fall short on duty.
3. To be less. The measure falls short of the estimate.
To stop short, to stop at once; also, to stop without reaching the point intended.
To turn short, to turn on the spot occupied; to turn without making a compass.
For turning short he struck with all his might. Dryden.
To be taken short, to be seized with urgent necessity.
In short, a few words; briefly; to sum up or close in a few words.
SHORT, n. A summary account; as the short of the matter.
The short and long in our play is preferred. Shak.
SHORT, adv. Not long; as short-enduring joy; a short-breathed man.
In connection with verbs, short is a modifying word, or used adverbially; as, to come short, etc.
SHORT, v.t.
1. To shorten.
2. v.i. To fail; to decrease. [Not in use.]
short appears in definitions for these words:
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A Abbreviate Abbreviated Abbreviating Abbreviation Abbreviatory Abbreviature Abide Abode Abomination About Abridge Abridged Abridging Abrupt Accelerate Accent Address Administer Adonic Advertisement Against Air Airing Alliteration Allowance Ampelite Amphibrach Amphimacer Amphitheater Amyztli Analects Anapest Anhelation Antibacchius Antiquity Ape Aphoristic Apocopated Apode Apostrophize Apostrophy Apothegm Apothegmatize Apothem Appendix Arietta Armistice Arthrodia Article Ass Asthma Astrite Attagen Attar Awhile Baboon Bacchius Bad Badger Bagpipe Balloon Bamboo Bastard Bayonet Be Bead Beagle Bearing-cloth Beat Beaver Best Betime Betle Bhuchampac Bill Billet Bison Bludgeon Blunderbuss Board Bob Bob-tailed Bob-wig Bobtail Bocaque Bombard Bootee Border Brachman Brachygraphy Brachylogy Breviary Breviat Breviped Brevity Bridle Brief Briefness Brittle Brokenwinded Buffel Bumkin Burbot Butts By Byssolite Call Camelopard Canzonet Carbine Cardinal Carronade Casting-vote Castor Catch Cavatina Chesible Choreus Choriambus Chubbed Chuck Chump Chunk Cimiter Climate Clip Clipped Clipping Clipt Club-footed Clump Clumsiness Clumsy Coat Coati Collect Comma Commit Compend Compendious Compendiously Compendiousness Concise Conglomerate Conjugate Connection Continuance Contract Contracted Contractile Contracting Contraction Controversy Cony Coralline Corbel Cot Cotton-shrub Crane-fly Credit Creep Cretic Crinkle Crispy Crop Crucian Crup Cubeb Cudgel Cue Curt Curtail Curtailed Curtailing Curtal Curtate Cut Dactyl Dagger Dame Dart Dayfly Decurt Decurtation Deficience Demi-lance Demi-semi-quaver Deprecatory Detruncate Diacritical Diastoly Didynam Didynamian Diminish Dip Disobedient Distance Do Dock Downright Dragon-fly Drops Drum Duck-legged Dumpy Dwell Earthflax Eelpout Eftsoons Ejaculate Ejaculation Ejaculatory Elaolite Elegance Elegy Elephant Elk Emotion Entrap Ephemera Ephemeric Epigram Epilogue Epitomize Epitomized Epitomizing Epitrite Essay Excellence Excursion Fail Falchion Falcon Fall Falter Feeder Feeler Fit Flash Flaw Flicker Flickering Flurry Flutter Fluttering Force Forecastle Foreshorten Foreshortening Frequency Frequent Frequently Fret Fright Frizzler Fugitive Fur Fusileer Gamashes Gasp Generalness Giggle Glimpse Gloss Glutton Go Grace Grub Grunt Guess Gust Hair Hanger Hare Harmonics Hatchet Heave Hedgehog Hickup Hobit Hog Hover Hovering Howitz Hymn Hyphen I Iambic Iambics Iambus Idyl Improve Incontracted Indirect Inelegant Inscribe Interact Jacket Jaculatory Jant Jar Jealousy Jerboa Jerk Jerkin Jess Jolt Juppon Kan Kilt Kirtle Knap Know Laconic Laniard Lapse Leather-seller Lengthy Limbed Line Little Lodge Lodged Long Lop Lopped Lopping Love Lynx Measure Mend Metaphor Meter Metrical Mince Minim Minute Minute-book Momentary Monkey Moose Mope-eyed Morality Morse Mortar Mushroom Musketoon Myope Myopy Nail Nap Nearest New No Nodding Norman Note Number Numerous O Ode Ophidion Oracular Orthodromics Ostrich Out Paddle Palter Palterer Pant Panther Paragraphic Passager Pause Pawl Pean Pec-cary Pectinate Pendant Penguin Phrase Pilchard Pinery Piston Pithy Plainness Poesy Poison Polemoscope Porcupine Pore-blind Portal Position Pour Precipitate Preconceive Prelude Premorse Presently Prevail Probability Proceleusmatic Proverb Puff Puffingly Punch Punchy Pundle Purblindness Pussiness Pussy Putlog Pyrrhic Quake Quick Quirk Raceme Racking-pace Rail Ramble Reach Ready Really Redshort Refine Reprieve Reptile Reside Respond Rest Rhythmus Rib Rider Right Righteousness Road Rope-bands Round Run Sackbut Sail Salamander Sanded Scrimp Scull Sculler Scut Scuttle Sea-gown Seal Seghol Sense Sentence Sententious Sententiously Seps Settlement Shank-painter Sheep-shank Short Short-breathed Short-jointed Short-lived Short-sight Short-waisted Short-winded Short-winged Shorten Shortened Shortening Shortner Shortness Shot Show Shower Shred Sighted Sin Siphon Skean Slow Small Snag Snagged Snaggy Snap Snatch Snub Sonnet Soon Space Span Sparhawk Sparrow-hawk Speedily Spell Spencer Splice Splise Spud Spur Spurt Squat Squeak Stab Stabbing Staple Stay Stenographer Stenographic Stenographical Stenography Step Stopper Straight Strike-block Stub-nail Stubbed Stubby Stumpy Subdivision Subject Subpetiolate Subsessile Succede Succinct Summarily Summary Supplement Surcoat Suspension Swad Swift Syllable Synaresis Syncopation Synoptically Systole Ta Tabular Tachygraphy Tamarind Tapir Tempest Theme Thickset Thrum Thum Thunder-storm Toe Too Tornado Transient Transiently Transientness Transition Transitorily Transitoriness Transitory Traverse Tribrach Trice Tride Trochee Tronco Trubtail Truce Truncated Truncheon Tumbler Tung Turbinite Twinging Twire Twitch Twitching Two-valved U Unabbreviated Unabridged Unclipped Uncurtailed Unparalleled Vansire Velvet Verse Versification Vest Vibrant Virelay Visit Waistcoat Walk Want Warning Warrantable Wasting Weight Welk What Whelk Whole Wildness Windy Wool Word Worm Wriggle Y Zigzag
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