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Shortening :: Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc..

Shorten :: Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc..

Al- :: Al- (A prefix.) To; at; on; -- in OF. shortened to a-. See Ad-.

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

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..

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.

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

Cut-off :: Cut-off (n.) That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road..

Alcohate :: Alcohate (n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

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..

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

Contractility :: Contractility (n.) The power possessed by the fibers of living muscle of contracting or shortening.

Pa :: Pa (n.) A shortened form of Papa.

Abbreviatory :: Abbreviatory (a.) Serving or tending to abbreviate; shortening; abridging.

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

Dock :: Dock (v. t.) To cut off a part from; to shorten; to deduct from; to subject to a deduction; as, to dock one's wages..

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

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

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..

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

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