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Longhand :: Longhand (n.) The written characters used in the common method of writing; -- opposed to shorthand.

Shortsighted :: Shortsighted (a.) Having little regard for the future; heedless.

Porcupine :: Porcupine (n.) Any species of Erethizon and related genera, native of America. They are related to the true porcupines, but have shorter spines, and are arboreal in their habits. The Canada porcupine (Erethizon dorsatus) is a well known species..

Pundle :: Pundle (n.) A short and fat woman; a squab.

Bob :: Bob (n.) A knot or short curl of hair; also, a bob wig..

Sprinter :: Sprint (n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.

Sock :: Sock (n.) A knit or woven covering for the foot and lower leg; a stocking with a short leg.

Short :: Short (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money..

Shorten :: Shorten (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold..

Anoplotherium :: Anoplotherium (n.) A genus of extinct quadrupeds of the order Ungulata, whose were first found in the gypsum quarries near Paris; characterized by the shortness and feebleness of their canine teeth (whence the name)..

Short :: Short (n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.

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

Bocal :: Bocal (n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck..

Stem :: Stem (n.) The short perpendicular line added to the body of a note; the tail of a crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, etc..

Deficiency :: Deficiency (n.) The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

Breve :: Breve (n.) The great ant thrush of Sumatra (Pitta gigas), which has a very short tail..

Notelet :: Notelet (n.) A little or short note; a billet.

Undershoot :: Undershoot (v. t.) To shoot short of (a mark).

Rest :: Rest (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.

Chinned :: Chinned (a.) Having a chin; -- used chiefly in compounds; as, short-chinned..

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