Word Meanings - HATCHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small ax with a short handle, to be used with one hand.

• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-winded
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
• SHORTLIVED
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• Shortened /
  of Shorten
• Shortening
  of Shorten
• Shortwing
  Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
• SHORTSPOKEN
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]
• Short-wited
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• SHORTWAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• Shortener
  One who, or that which, shortens.
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• Handleable
  Capable of being handled.
• Shorthand
  A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.

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