SHORTEN
SHORTEN, verb transitiveshort'n.1. To make short in measure, extent or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.2. To abridge; to lessen; as...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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SHORTENED
SHORT'ENED, participle passive Made shorter; abridged; contracted.
SHORTENING
SHORT'ENING, participle present tense Making shorter; contracting.SHORT'ENING, noun Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard.SHORT'-HAND, noun...
SHORTLY
SHORT'LY, adverb1. Quickly; soon; in a little time.The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon.2. In a few words; briefly; as, to express ideas more shortly in vers...
SHORTNER
SHORT'NER, noun He or that which shortens.
SHORTNESS
SHORT'NESS, noun1. The quality of being short in space or time; little length or little duration; as the shortness of a journey or of distance; the shortness of the days in wint...
SHORTS
SHORTS, nounplural The bran and coarse part of a meal. [Local.]
SHORTSIGHTED
SHORT'SIGHTED, adjective [short and sight.]1. Not able to see far; having limited vision; in a literal sense.2. Not able to look far into futurity; not able to understand things...
SHORY
SHO'RY, adjective [from shore.] Lying near th eshore or coast. [Little used.]
SHOT
SHOT, preterit tense and participle passive of shoot.SHOT, noun1. The act of shooting; discharge of a missile weapon.He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at t...
SHOTE
SHOTE, noun1. A fish resembling the trout.2. A young hog. [See Shoot.]SHOT'-FREE, adjective [shot and free.]1. Free from charge; exempted from any share of expense; scot-free.2....
SHOTTEN
SHOTTEN, adjectiveshot'n. [from shoot.]1. Having ejected the spawn; as a shotten herring.2. Shooting into angles.3. Shot out of its socket; dislocated; as a bone.
SHOTTING
SHOTT'ING, noun1. The act of discharging fire-arms, or of sending an arrow with force; a firing.2. Sensation of a wuick glancing pain.3. In sportsmanship, the act or practice of...
SHOUGH
SHOUGH, nounshok. A kind of shaggy dog. [Not in use. See Shock.]
SHOULD
SHOULD. shood. The preterit of shall, but now used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past time or conditional present. 'He should have paid the debt at the time the note becam...
SHOULDER
SHOULDER, noun1. The joint by which the arm of a human being or the fore leg of a quadruped is connected with the body; or in man, the projection formed by the bones called scap...
SHOULDER-BELT
SHOULDER-BELT, noun [shoulder and belt.] A belt that passes across the shoulder.
SHOULDER-BLADE
SHOULDER-BLADE, noun [shoulder and blade.] The bone of the shoulder, or blade bone, broad and triangular, covering the hind part of the ribs; called by anatomists scapula and om...
SHOULDER-CLAPPER
SHOULDER-CLAPPER, noun [shoulder and clap.] One that claps another on the shoulder, or that uses great familiarity. [Not in use.]
SHOULDER-KNOT
SHOULDER-KNOT, noun [shoulder and knot.] An ornamental knot of ribin or lace worn on the shoulder; an epaulet.
SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
SHOULDER-SHOTTEN, adjective [shoulder and shot.] Strained in the shoulder, as a horse.
SHOULDER-SLIP
SHOULDER-SLIP, noun [shoulder and slip.] Dislocation of the shoulder or of the humerus.
SHOUT
SHOUT, verb intransitive To utter a sudden and loud outcry, usually in joy, triumph or exultation, or to animate soldiers in an onset.It is not the voice of them that shout for ...
SHOUTER
SHOUT'ER, noun One that shouts.
SHOUTING
SHOUT'ING, participle present tense Uttering a sudden and loud outcry in joy or exultation.SHOUT'ING, noun The act of shouting; a loud outcry expressive of joy or animation.
SHOVE
SHOVE, verb transitive1. To push; to propel; to drive along by the direct application of strength without impulse; particularly, to push a body by sliding or causing it to move ...
SHOVED
SHOVED, participle passive Pushed; propelled.