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Word Meanings - FOREGANGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A short rope grafted on a harpoon, to which a longer lin Totten.

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  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • GRAFTAGE
    The science of grafting, including the various methods of practice and details of operation.
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • SHORT-HANDED
    Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
  • SHORTHEAD
    A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SHORTCAKE
    An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
  • SHORTLY
    1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
  • SHORT-JOINTED
    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. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.
  • WHICH
    the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • SHORT-WAISTED
    Having a short waist.
  • SHORT
    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 corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery,
  • SHORTENING
    That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
  • GRAFTER
    An instrument by which grafting is facilitated. 3. The original tree from which a scion has been taken for grafting upon another tree. Shak. (more info) 1. One who inserts scions on other stocks, or propagates fruit by ingrafting.
  • HARPOONEER
    An harpooner. Grabb.
  • SHORTSTOP
    The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
  • SHORT-SPOKEN
    Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
  • SHORT-BREATHED
    1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life.
  • SHORTSIGHTED
    1. Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia. 2. Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect. 3. Having little regard for the future; heedless. -- Short"sight`ed*ly, adv.
  • CLEFTGRAFT
    To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion. Mortimer.
  • INGRAFTER
    A person who ingrafts.
  • RED-SHORT
    Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.

 

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