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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..

Esquire :: Esquire (n.) Originally, a shield-bearer or armor-bearer, an attendant on a knight; in modern times, a title of dignity next in degree below knight and above gentleman; also, a title of office and courtesy; -- often shortened to squire..

A :: A (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging..

Detuncate :: Detuncate (v. t.) To shorten by cutting; to cut off; to lop off.

Short :: Short (v. t.) To shorten.

Epitomize :: Epitomize (v. t.) To make an epitome of; to shorten or abridge, as a writing or discourse; to reduce within a smaller space; as, to epitomize the works of Justin..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Aphetize :: Aphetize (v. t.) To shorten by aphesis.

Tuck :: Tuck (v. t.) To draw up; to shorten; to fold under; to press into a narrower compass; as, to tuck the bedclothes in; to tuck up one's sleeves..

Shortcake :: Shortcake (n.) An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Systole :: Systole (n.) The shortening of the long syllable.

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To shorten (a tire) in the process of resetting, originally by cutting it and hammering on the ends..

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

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..

Upset :: Upset (v. t.) To thicken and shorten, as a heated piece of iron, by hammering on the end..

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..

Apocopation :: Apocopation (n.) Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

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