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A gown or frock with short sleeves, formerly worn by mariners. Shak.

A European sculpin (Cottus scorpius) having the head armed with short spines.

agnitude of the inequalities in a planet's motion that remain after the inequalities of a short period have been allowed for. -- Secular games (Rom. Antiq.), games celebrated, at long but irregular intervals, for three days and nights, with sacrifices, theatrical shows, combats, sports, and the like. -- Secular music…

A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope. [Obs.] Chaucer.

re it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch. -- Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Æschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage. -- Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpo…

A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw. Broome.

A short sermon. [Written also sermonette.]

A short steel spike used for driving the head of a nail below the surface.

A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta.

for nipping off the edges of pieces of glass to make them round. Shank painter (Naut.), a short rope or chain which holds the shank of an anchor against the side of a vessel when it is secured for a voyage. -- To ride shank's mare, to go on foot; to walk.

rmerly also in the singular. See Shears. On his head came razor none, nor shear. Chaucer. Short of the wool, and naked from the shear. Dryden.

A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.] [U. S.] To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]

ht, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.

A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.

A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.

A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.

ut off sharply and abruptly by a following consonant in the same syllable, as the English short vowels, â, ê, î, ô, û, always are.