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Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (a.) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type.

Abbreviature :: Abbreviature (n.) An abbreviation; an abbreviated state or form.

Idem :: Idem (pron. / adj.) The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.

Messieurs :: Messieurs (n. pl.) Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr..

New Year''s Day :: New Year's Day () the first day of a calendar year; the first day of January. Often colloquially abbreviated to New year's or new year.

Scilicet :: Scilicet (adv.) To wit; namely; videlicet; -- often abbreviated to sc., or ss..

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To make briefer; to shorten; to abridge; to reduce by contraction or omission, especially of words written or spoken..

Mesencephalon :: Mesencephalon (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (imp. & p. p.) of Abbreviat.

Bastard :: Bastard (n.) Abbreviated, as the half title in a page preceding the full title page of a book..

Diencephalon :: Diencephalon (n.) The interbrain or thalamencephalon; -- sometimes abbreviated to dien. See Thalamencephalon.

Abbreviated :: Abbreviated (a.) Shortened; relatively short; abbreviate.

Abbreviate :: Abbreviate (v. t.) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction..

Videlicet :: Videlicet (adv.) To wit; namely; -- often abbreviated to viz.

Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The process of setting accounts or debts between parties residing at a distance from each other, without the intervention of money, by exchanging orders or drafts, called bills of exchange. These may be drawn in one country and payable in another, in which case they are called foreign bills; or they may be drawn and made payable in the same country, in which case they are called inland bills. The term bill of exchange is often abbreviated into exchange; as, to buy or sell exchange.

Decrescendo :: Decrescendo (a. & adv.) With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign..

Varietas :: Varietas (n.) A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One who abbreviates or shortens.

Ladykin :: Ladykin (n.) A little lady; -- applied by the writers of Queen Elizabeth's time, in the abbreviated form Lakin, to the Virgin Mary..

International :: International (n.) The International; an abbreviated from of the title of the International Workingmen's Association, the name of an association, formed in London in 1864, which has for object the promotion of the interests of the industrial classes of all nations..

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