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Airing :: Airing (n.) A walk or a ride in the open air; a short excursion for health's sake.

Shower :: Shower (n.) A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow..

Fughetta :: Fughetta (n.) a short, condensed fugue..

Cut-out :: Cut-out (n.) A species of switch for changing the current from one circuit to another, or for shortening a circuit..

Hay-cutter :: Hay-cutter (n.) A machine in which hay is chopped short, as fodder for cattle..

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A short bend, slope, or curve, where a hand rail or cap changes its direction..

Stunned :: Stumpy (a.) Short and thick; stubby.

Toddle :: Toddle (v. i.) To walk with short, tottering steps, as a child..

Jacket :: "Jacket (n.) A short upper garment, extending downward to the hips; a short coat without skirts..

Konze :: Konze (n.) A large African antelope (Alcelaphus Lichtensteini), allied to the hartbeest, but having shorter and flatter horns, and lacking a black patch on the face..

Strepsipterous :: Strepsiptera (n. pl.) A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary, and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while the posterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in the larval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera. See Illust. under Rhipipter..

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart..

Curtate :: Curtate (a.) Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the distance from the sun or earth to that point where a perpendicular, let fall from the planet upon the plane of the ecliptic, meets the ecliptic..

Brachycephalism :: Brachycephalism (n.) The state or condition of being brachycephalic; shortness of head.

Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To make shorter; to shorten in duration; to lessen; to diminish; to curtail; as, to abridge labor; to abridge power or rights..

Weka :: Weka (n.) A New Zealand rail (Ocydromus australis) which has wings so short as to be incapable of flight.

Codetta :: Codetta (n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda..

Depressed :: Depressed (a.) Having the vertical diameter shorter than the horizontal or transverse; -- said of the bodies of animals, or of parts of the bodies..

Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..

Phrase :: Phrase (n.) A short clause or portion of a period.

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