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Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. [R.] "The abbreviate form." Earle.

An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form. [Obs.]

Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book. Bastard ashlar (Arch.), stones for ashlar work, roughly squared at the quarry. -- Bastard file, a file intermediate between the coarsest and the second cut. -- Bastard type (Print.), type having the face of a larger or a smaller size th…

A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.

Partners in a firm whose names are not mentioned in its style or title; -- often abbreviated in writing; as, Hottinguer & Co.

A gallon, or four quarts. [Often abbreviated to cong.]

Something contracted or abbreviated, as a word or phrase; -- as, plenipo for plenipotentiary; crim. con. for criminal conversation, etc.

minal conversation (Law), unlawful intercourse with a married woman; adultery; -- usually abbreviated, crim. con. -- Criminal law, the law which relates to crimes.

decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

ty of the skull and spinal column, and surrounds the brain and spinal cord; -- frequently abbreviated to dura.

ain next behind the midbrain, including the cerebellum and pons; the hindbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to epen.

sed to point out that other things which could be mentioned are to be understood. Usually abbreviated into etc. or &c. (&c). Shak.

e country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

ief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter. -- Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stri…

In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.

The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations.

A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary.