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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..

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

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

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

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The act or process of contracting, shortening, or shrinking; the state of being contracted; as, contraction of the heart, of the pupil of the eye, or of a tendion; the contraction produced by cold..

Roll :: Roll (v.) A kind of shortened raised biscuit or bread, often rolled or doubled upon itself..

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..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his upper lip and thus artificially shortening it..

Contract :: Contract (n.) To shorten by omitting a letter or letters or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one.

Shortening :: Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorte.

Shoot :: Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..

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

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

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..

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..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

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..

Pullman Car :: Pullman car () A kind of sleeping car; also, a palace car; -- often shortened to Pullman..

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

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