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An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

he lives somehow. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Cheyne.

d with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon. None shall dare With shortened sword to stab in closer war. Dryden.

of, as musical strings, by pressing them against the finger board with the finger, or by shortening in any way the vibrating part.

The shortening of the long syllable.

To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.

To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves.

Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole.

arade, allowed in bad weather, the companies forming without arms, and the ceremony being shortened.

Having no deductions; not curtailed, or shortened; undiminished. [R.] Swift.

To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end.

also at a lower temperature, which largely obviates the danger of burning the sugar, and shortens the process. -- Vacuum pump. Same as Pulsometer, 1. -- Vacuum tube (Phys.), a glass tube provided with platinum electrodes and exhausted, for the passage of the electrical discharge; a Geissler tube. -- Vacuum valve, a…

To contract; to shorten. [Obs.] Now sad winter welked hath the day. Spenser.