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- English Word Short-winded Definition Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
- English Word Short-wited Definition Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
- English Word Shortage Definition Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
- English Word Shortcake Definition An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
- English Word Shortclothes Definition Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
- English Word Shortcoming Definition The act of falling, or coming short
- English Word Shortcoming Definition The failure of a crop, or the like.
- English Word Shortcoming Definition Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.
- English Word Shorten Definition To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
- English Word Shorten Definition 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.
- English Word Shorten Definition To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
- English Word Shorten Definition To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
- English Word Shorten Definition To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
- English Word Shortened / Definition of Shorten
- English Word Shortener Definition One who, or that which, shortens.
- English Word Shortening Definition of Shorten
- English Word Shortening Definition The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
- English Word Shortening Definition That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
- English Word Shorthand Definition A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
- English Word Shorthead Definition A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.