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Shortly
adv.
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In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in verse than in prose.
Shortness
n.
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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.
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Not able to see far; nearsighted; myopic. See Myopic, and Myopia.
Shortsighted
a.
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Fig.: Not able to look far into futurity; unable to understand things deep; of limited intellect.
Shortsighted
a.
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Having little regard for the future; heedless.
Short-spoken
a.
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Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt.
Shortstop
n.
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The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Short-waisted
a.
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Having a short waist.
Short-winded
a.
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Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons.
Shortwing
n.
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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.
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Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
Shory
a.
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Lying near the shore.
Shoshones
n. pl.
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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
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imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
Shot
a.
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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.
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A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Shot
pl.
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of Shot
Shots
pl.
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of Shot
Shot
n.
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The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
Shot
n.
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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.
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Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, -- used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
Shot
n.
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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.
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A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
Shotted
imp. & p. p.
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of Shot
Shotting
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Shot
Shot
v. t.
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To load with shot, as a gun.
Shot-clog
n.
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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.
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A fish resembling the trout.
Shote
v. t.
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A young hog; a shoat.
Shot-free
a.
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Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.