Word Meanings - THRUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.

• Shortcake
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• Short-jointed
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• SHORTDATED
  Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
• Short circuit
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• Short-lived
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• SHORTHANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Short-circuited
  of Short-circuit
• SHORTJOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• Henceforth
  From this time forward; henceforward.
• 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
• SHORTLIVED
  Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
• Henceforward
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• 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.
• SHORTSPOKEN
  Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]
• Resemblable
  Admitting of being compared; like.
• Shortclothes
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.

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