Word Meanings - FORESHORTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the

Additional info about word: FORESHORTEN

To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.

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• DRAWER
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• PLANE TREE
  See PLANE
• DRAWCANSIR
  A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
• SPECTATORSHIP
  1. The office or quality of a spectator. Addison. 2. The act of beholding. Shak.
• SURFACE LOADING
  The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface.
• TOWARD; TOWARDS
  1. In the direction of; to. He set his face toward the wilderness. Num. xxiv. 1. The waves make towards'' the pebbled shore. Shak. 2. With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning. His eye shall be evil
• DRAW-CUT
  A single cut with a knife.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• DRAWEE
  The person on whom an order or bill of exchange is drawn; -- the correlative of drawer.
• TOWARDS
  See TOWARD
• DRAWROD
  A rod which unites the drawgear at opposite ends of the car, and bears the pull required to draw the train.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• DRAWBAR
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• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
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• TOWARDNESS
  Quality or state of being toward.
• DRAWGLOVES
  An old game, played by holding up the fingers. Herrick.
• PLANETULE
  A little planet. Conybeare.
• HYDROBIPLANE
  A hydro-aëroplane having two supporting planes.
• UNDRAW
  To draw aside or open; to draw back. Angels undrew the curtain of the throne. Young.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• INDRAWN
  Drawn in.