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Motive :: Motive (n.) The theme or subject; a leading phrase or passage which is reproduced and varied through the course of a comor a movement; a short figure, or melodic germ, out of which a whole movement is develpoed. See also Leading motive, under Leading..

Return :: Return (n.) The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, as a molding or mold; -- applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer; thus, a facade of sixty feet east and west has a return of twenty feet north and south..

Fret :: Fret (n.) A short piece of wire, or other material fixed across the finger board of a guitar or a similar instrument, to indicate where the finger is to be placed..

Selion :: Selion (n.) A short piece of land in arable ridges and furrows, of uncertain quantity; also, a ridge of land lying between two furrows..

Derringer :: Derringer (n.) A kind of short-barreled pocket pistol, of very large caliber, often carrying a half-ounce ball..

Slow :: Slow (superl.) Not happening in a short time; gradual; late.

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

Short-breathed :: Short-breathed (a.) Having short-breath, or quick respiration..

Brachydiagonal :: Brachydiagonal (n.) The shorter of the diagonals in a rhombic prism.

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

Sheepshank :: Sheepshank (n.) A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.

Hauberk :: Hauberk (v. t.) A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used synonymously with habergeon. See Habergeon..

Pause :: Pause (n.) To make a short stop; to cease for a time; to intermit speaking or acting; to stop; to wait; to rest.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Batlet :: Batlet (n.) A short bat for beating clothes in washing them; -- called also batler, batling staff, batting staff..

Jerkin :: Jerkin (n.) A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat.

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

Ideography :: Ideography (n.) The representation of ideas independently of sounds, or in an ideographic manner, as sometimes is done in shorthand writing, etc..

Scrimp :: Scrimp (a.) Short; scanty; curtailed.

Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) That which abridges or cuts short; hence, an entertainment that makes the time pass quickly..

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