Word Meanings - BASSETHOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.

• Short-circuit
  To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.
• Shortsighted
  Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
• EARTHENHEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. [Poetic] Lowell.
• SHORTWITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Earthfork
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthwards
  Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Earthwork
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Shortclothes
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• Short-spoken
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
• EARTHFLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• Earthiness
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• Earthworm
  Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• EARTHLIGHT
  The sunlight reflected from the earth to the moon, by which we see faintly, when the moon is near the sun (either before or after new moon), that part of the moon's disk unillumined by direct sunlight, or "the old moon in the arms of the new."
• Earthliness
  The quality or state of being earthly; worldliness; grossness; perishableness.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.

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