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Novelette :: Novelette (n.) A short novel.

Jimmy :: Jimmy (n.) A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.

Soon :: Soon (adv.) In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise..

Waddle :: Waddle (v. i.) To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to the other, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily and totteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when he begins to walk; a goose waddles..

Measure :: Measure (a.) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure..

Thickset :: Thickset (a.) Having a short, thick body; stout..

Suspense :: Suspensation (n.) The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended, especially for a short time; temporary suspension..

Short :: Short (superl.) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry..

Trice :: Trice (n.) A very short time; an instant; a moment; -- now used only in the phrase in a trice.

Codetta :: Codetta (n.) A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming part of either; a short coda..

Basset Hound :: Basset hound () A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog..

Abortive :: Abortive (v.) Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever..

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels..

Bocal :: Bocal (n.) A cylindrical glass vessel, with a large and short neck..

Header :: Header (n.) A brick or stone laid with its shorter face or head in the surface of the wall.

Brachytypous :: Brachytypous (a.) Of a short form.

Bite :: Bite (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another..

Terebratula :: Terebratula (n.) A genus of brachiopods which includes many living and some fossil species. The larger valve has a perforated beak, through which projects a short peduncle for attachment. Called also lamp shell..

Clubhand :: Clubhand (n.) A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand..

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