Word Meanings - COMPENDIARIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short; compendious. Bailey.

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• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• COMPENDIOUS
  Containing the substance oe general principles of a subject or work in a narrow compass; abridged; summarized. More compendious and exeditious ways. Woodward. Three things be required in the oration of a man having authority -- that it
• SHORT-BREATHED
  1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life.
• COMPENDIOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being compendious.
• 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.
• SHORTEN
  1. To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity. 2. To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract;
• SHORTCLOTHES
  Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings.
• RED-SHORT
  Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n.
• FORESHORTENING
  Representation in a foreshortened mode or way.