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A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon.

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.

Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. -- Short"sight`ed*ness, n. Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness. Addison.

The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

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.

Brittle when cold; as, cold-short iron.

t on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.

Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron.

Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.

nto; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging. "Jacob, when he was a dying" Heb. xi. 21. "We'll a birding together." " It was a doing." Shak. "He burst out a l…

ower state, number, or degree; to lessen; to diminish; to contract; to moderate; toto cut short; as, to abate a demand; to abate pride, zeal, hope. His eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. Deut. xxxiv. 7.

To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken. It is one thing to abbreviate by contracting, another by cutting off. Bacon.

Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

The act of shortening, or reducing.

One who abbreviates or shortens.

Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever.