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Breviate :: Breviate (n.) A short compend; a summary; a brief statement.

Musketoon :: Musketoon (n.) A short musket.

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Semicope :: Semicope (n.) A short cope, or an inferier kind of cope..

Duck-legged :: Duck-legged (a.) Having short legs, like a waddling duck; short-legged..

Tee :: Tee (n.) A short piece of pipe having a lateral outlet, used to connect a line of pipe with a pipe at a right angle with the line; -- so called because it resembles the letter T in shape..

Bob :: Bob (n.) To cut short; as, to bob the hair, or a horse's tail..

Soboles :: Soboles (n.) A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances..

Hyphen :: Hyphen (n.) A mark or short dash, thus [-], placed at the end of a line which terminates with a syllable of a word, the remainder of which is carried to the next line; or between the parts of many a compound word; as in fine-leaved, clear-headed. It is also sometimes used to separate the syllables of words..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like..

Shorthand :: Shorthand (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography..

Hot-short :: Hot-short (a.) More or less brittle when heated; as, hot-short iron..

Lye :: Lye (n.) A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding..

Shortness :: Shortness (n.) 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..

Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever..

Illness :: Illness (n.) Disease; indisposition; malady; disorder of health; sickness; as, a short or a severe illness..

Zamouse :: Zamouse (n.) A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base, and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo, and bush cow..

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

Coatee :: Coatee (n.) A coat with short flaps.

Spur :: Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post.

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