- (n.) A short sound, syllable or vowel.
- (n.) A summary account.
- (superl.) Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
- (superl.) Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
- (superl.) Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
- (v.i.) To fail; to decrease.
- (n.) The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
- (v.t.) To shorten.
- (n.) Short, inferior hemp.
- (superl.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions or of water.
- (superl.) Brittle.
- (adv.) In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
- (superl.) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
- (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
- (adv.) Not prolonged or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
- (superl.) Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
- (superl.) Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money.
- (n.) Breeches; shortclothes.
- (superl.) Less important, efficaceous or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of.
- (superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
- (superl.) Not distant in time; near at hand.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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