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inute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.

Having a plump, short face.

Like a chub; plump, short, and thick. "Chubby faces." I. Taylor.

A short throw; a toss.

A short, suppressed laugh; the expression of satisfaction, exultation, or derision.

A short, thick, heavy piece of wood. Morton. Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens.

A short, thick piece of anything. [Colloq. U. S. & Prov. Eng.]

Short and thick. [U. S.] Kane.

circle; to surround; to inclose; to encircle. Prior. Pope. Their heads are circled with a short turban. Dampier. So he lies, circled with evil. Coleridge. To circle in, to confine; to hem in; to keep together; as, to circle bodies in. Sir K. Digby.

To curtail; to cut short. All my reports go with the modest truth; No more nor clipped, but so. Shak. In London they clip their words after one manner about the court, another in the city, and a third in the suburbs. Swift.

Short; as, to cut grass or hair close.

Naut.), a kind of gaff topsail, used mostly by yachts having a fore-and-aft rig. It has a short "club" or "jack yard" to increase its spread.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

A coat with short flaps.

A short-legged and stout horse, esp. one used for the saddle. [Eng.]

A bird of the Parrot family, of the subfamily Cacatuinæ, having a short, strong, and much curved beak, and the head ornamented with a crest, which can be raised or depressed at will. There are several genera and many species; as the broad-crested (Plictolophus, or Cacatua, cristatus), the sulphur-crested (P. galeritus)…

hey have the head of fair length, with square muzzle, the ears long and set low, the legs short or of medium length, and the coat fine and silky, wavy but not curly. Various colors are bred, as black, liver, red, black and white, black and tan, etc.

ome kinds of cloth after a wetting. Cockling sea, waves dashing against each other with a short and quick motion. Ham. Nav. Encyc.