Word Meanings - SHORTSPOKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]

• Quickset
  A living plant set to grow, esp. when set for a hedge; specifically, the hawthorn.
• 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.
• QUICKWITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• Mannerliness
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
• Quick-sighted
  Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern.
• 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.
• QUICKWITTEDNESS
  Readiness of wit. "Celtic quick-wittedness." M. Arnold.
• Mannerly
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
• Quicksilver
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver.
• Shortcoming
  The act of falling, or coming short
• Shortstop
  The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
• SHORTCIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Colloquial
  Pertaining to, or used in, conversation, esp. common and familiar conversation; conversational; hence, unstudied; informal; as, colloquial intercourse; colloquial phrases; a colloquial style.
• Quickbeam
  See Quicken tree.
• Quicksilvered
  Overlaid with quicksilver, or with an amalgam of quicksilver and tinfoil.
• Short-dated
  Having little time to run from the date.
• Short-waisted
  Having a short waist.

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