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Short

Short	superl.	Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
Short	superl.	Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
Short	superl.	Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
Short	superl.	Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; usually with of; as, to be short of money.
Short	superl.	Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
Short	superl.	Not distant in time; near at hand.
Short	superl.	Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
Short	superl.	Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); with of.
Short	superl.	Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
Short	superl.	Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry.
Short	superl.	Brittle.
Short	superl.	Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv.
Short	adv.	Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, //22, 30.
Short	n.	A summary account.
Short	n.	The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran.
Short	n.	Short, inferior hemp.
Short	n.	Breeches; shortclothes.
Short	n.	A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
Short	adv.	In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
Short	v. t.	To shorten.
Short	v. i.	To fail; to decrease.

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