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Abridge :: Abridge (v. t.) To shorten or contract by using fewer words, yet retaining the sense; to epitomize; to condense; as, to abridge a history or dictionary..

Breve :: Breve (n.) A curved mark [/] used commonly to indicate the short quantity of a vowel.

Staccato :: Staccato (a.) Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic..

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..

Roundelay :: Roundelay (n.) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively.

Punchy :: Punchy (a.) Short and thick, or fat..

Wekau :: Wekau (n.) A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has short wings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground..

Setula :: Setula (n.) A small, short hair or bristle; a small seta..

Place :: Place (n.) A broad way in a city; an open space; an area; a court or short part of a street open only at one end.

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

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

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

While :: While (n.) Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent..

Cacajao :: Cacajao (n.) A South American short-tailed monkey (Pithecia (/ Brachyurus) melanocephala).

Lip :: Lip (n.) An edge of an opening; a thin projecting part of anything; a kind of short open spout; as, the lip of a vessel..

Cutty :: Cutty (n.) A short tobacco pipe.

Tachydidaxy :: Tachydidaxy (n.) A short or rapid method of instructing.

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

Apocopated :: Apocopated (a.) Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form..

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective..

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