Word Meanings - BRACHYPTERA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A group of Coleoptera having short wings; the rove beetles.

• Short-circuiting
  of Short-circuit
• Shortness
  The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness
• SHORTWAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• Havenage
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• 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.
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• Beetlestock
  The handle of a beetle.
• Havened
  Sheltered in a haven.
• 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.
• SHORTWITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Coleoptera
  An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws
• Havener
  A harbor master.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• Coleopteral
  Alt. of Coleopterous
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.

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