Word Meanings - STORYBOOK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
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- FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - CONTAINMENT
That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller. - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - 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. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - 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. - CONTAINANT
A container. - 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. - CONTAINABLE
Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle. - 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. - SHORT-BREATHED
1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. 2. Having short life. - SELF-CONTAINED
Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine. - RED-SHORT
Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n. - FALSE
Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,