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Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like..

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity..

Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Trim :: Trim (v. t.) To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

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..

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

Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation..

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

Coronary :: Coronary (n.) Informal shortening of coronary thrombosis, also used generally to mean heart attack..

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.

Shortener :: Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens..

Brief :: Brief (v. t.) To make an abstract or abridgment of; to shorten; as, to brief pleadings..

O :: O' (prep.) A shortened form of of or on.

Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..

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

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

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A horizontal sewed fold, such as is made in a garment, to shorten it; a plait..

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