Definition

To shorten. [Obs.]

Other Definitions

This word also has 3 other definitions:

SHORT (adjective)

1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. The bed is shorter than that a ma...

SHORT (adverb)

In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged c...

SHORT (noun)

1. A summary account. The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. 2. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bra...