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Stubbed :: Stubbed (a.) Reduced to a stub; short and thick, like something truncated; blunt; obtuse..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

Sentence :: Sentence (n.) A short saying, usually containing moral instruction; a maxim; an axiom; a saw..

Tribe :: Tribe (n.) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line; as, the Duchess tribe of shorthorns..

Short :: Short (superl.) Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of..

Tarsus :: Tarsus (n.) The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones..

Foreganger :: Foreganger (n.) A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin/ may be attached..

Antibacchius :: Antibacchius (n.) A foot of three syllables, the first two long, and the last short (#)..

Short :: Short (n.) A short sound, syllable, or vowel..

Impennate :: Impennate (a.) Characterized by short wings covered with feathers resembling scales, as the penguins..

Symptom :: Symposium (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Glimpse :: Glimpse (v. t.) To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Poreblind :: Poreblind (a.) Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind.

Summary :: Summary (a.) Formed into a sum; summed up; reduced into a narrow compass, or into few words; short; brief; concise; compendious; as, a summary statement of facts..

Proceleusmatic :: Proceleusmatic (n.) A foot consisting of four short syllables.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) A term of study in a seminary, college, etc, etc.; properly, a fourth part of the year, but often longer or shorter..

Shortstop :: Shortstop (n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.

Bull-necked :: Bull-necked (a.) Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull.

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