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Unabridged :: Unabridged (a.) Not abridged, or shortened; full; complete; entire; whole..

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective..

Foreshortening :: Foreshortening (n.) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.

Brigadier General :: Brigadier general () An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened.

Alcohate :: Alcohate (n.) Shortened forms of Alcoholate.

Shortened / :: Shortened / (imp. & p. p.) of Shorte.

Sackbut :: Sackbut (n.) A brass wind instrument, like a bass trumpet, so contrived that it can be lengthened or shortened according to the tone required; -- said to be the same as the trombone..

Abridgment :: Abridgment (n.) An epitome or compend, as of a book; a shortened or abridged form; an abbreviation..

Shortening :: Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

Abbreviation :: Abbreviation (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing..

Retract :: Retract (v. t.) To draw back; to draw up or shorten; as, the cat can retract its claws; to retract a muscle..

Della Crusca :: Della Crusca () A shortened form of Accademia della Crusca, an academy in Florence, Italy, founded in the 16th century, especially for conserving the purity of the Italian language..

Short :: Short (v. t.) To shorten.

Foreshorten :: Foreshorten (v. t.) Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.

Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The process of shortening an operation.

Aphetic :: Aphetic (a.) Shortened by dropping a letter or a syllable from the beginning of a word; as, an aphetic word or form..

Welk :: Welk (v. t.) To contract; to shorten.

Quicken :: Quicken (a.) To shorten the radius of (a curve); to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced..

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