Word Meanings - STORYBOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.

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• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• 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.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• 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.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• 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.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• 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.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• RED-SHORT
  Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.
• FALSE
  Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,