Shortcoming (n.) The act of falling, or coming short
Shortcoming (n.) The failure of a crop, or the like.
Shortcoming (n.) Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.
Short-dated (a.) Having little time to run from the date.
Shortened / (imp. & p. p.) of Shorten
Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorten
Shorten (a.) To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
Shorten (a.) To reduce or diminish in amount, quantity, or extent; to lessen; to abridge; to curtail; to contract; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.
Shorten (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
Shorten (v. i.) To become short or shorter; as, the day shortens in northern latitudes from June to December; a metallic rod shortens by cold.
Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens.
Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
Shorthand (n.) A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words, etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under Phonography.
Short-handed (a.) Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
Shorthead (n.) A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
Shorthorn (a.) One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
Short-jointed (a.) Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
Short-lived (a.) Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
Shortly (adv.) In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly.
Shortly (adv.) In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
Shortness (n.) The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.
Shortsighted (a.) Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Shortsighted (a.) Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
Shortsighted (a.) Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Short-spoken (a.) Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
Shortstop (n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Short-waisted (a.) Having a short waist.
Short-winded (a.) Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
Shortwing (n.) Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
Short-wited (a.) Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
Shory (a.) Lying near the shore.
Shoshones (n. pl.) A linguistic family or stock of North American Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
Shot () imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
Shot (a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
Shot (v. t.) A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Shot (pl. ) of Shot
Shots (pl. ) of Shot
Shot (n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
Shot (n.) A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
Shot (n.) Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
Shot (n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot.
Shot (n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
Shotted (imp. & p. p.) of Shot
Shotting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shot
Shot (v. t.) To load with shot, as a gun.
Shot-clog (n.) A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
Shote (v. t.) A fish resembling the trout.
Shote (v. t.) A young hog; a shoat.
Shot-free (a.) Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
Shot-free (a.) Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
Shotgun (n.) A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
Shot-proof (a.) Impenetrable by shot.
Shots (n. pl.) The refuse of cattle taken from a drove.
Shotted (a.) Loaded with shot.
Shotted (a.) Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.
Shotten (n.) Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
Shotten (n.) Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
Shough (n.) A shockdog.
Shough (interj.) See Shoo.
Should (imp.) Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go.
Shoulder (n.) The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
Shoulder (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
Shoulder (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
Shoulder (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
Shoulder (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
Shoulder (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
Shouldered (imp. & p. p.) of Shoulder
Shouldering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoulder
Shoulder (v. t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
Shoulder (v. t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
Shouldered (a.) Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad-shouldered man.
Shoulder-shotten (a.) Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse.
Shouted (imp. & p. p.) of Shout
Shouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shout
Shout (v. i.) To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
Shout (v. t.) To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
Shout (v. t.) To treat with shouts or clamor.
Shout (n.) A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially of a multitudes expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
Shouter (n.) One who shouts.
Shoved (imp. & p. p.) of Shove
Shoving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shove
Shove (v. t.) To drive along by the direct and continuous application of strength; to push; especially, to push (a body) so as to make it move along the surface of another body; as, to shove a boat on the water; to shove a table across the floor.
Shove (v. t.) To push along, aside, or away, in a careless or rude manner; to jostle.
Shove (v. i.) To push or drive forward; to move onward by pushing or jostling.
Shove (v. i.) To move off or along by an act pushing, as with an oar a pole used by one in a boat; sometimes with off.
Shove (n.) The act of shoving; a forcible push.
Shove () p. p. of Shove.
Shoveboard (n.) Alt. of Shovegroat
Shovegroat (n.) The same as Shovelboard.
Shovel (v. t.) An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or less hollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth, coal, grain, or other loose substances.
Shoveled (imp. & p. p.) of Shovel
Shovelled () of Shovel
Shoveling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shovel
Shovelling () of Shovel
Shovel (v. t.) To take up and throw with a shovel; as, to shovel earth into a heap, or into a cart, or out of a pit.
Shovel (v. t.) To gather up as with a shovel.
Shovelard (n.) Shoveler.