Chapter Shoreless to Shough of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs.

H. Sweet.

In short, in few words; in brief; briefly. — The long and the short, the whole; a brief summing up. — The shorts (Stock Exchange), those who are unsupplied with stocks which they contracted to deliver.

Short
(Short) adv. 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 (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes to buy at a lower rate.

Short
(Short), v. t. [AS. sceortian.] To shorten. [Obs.]

Short
(Short), v. i. To fail; to decrease. [Obs.]

Shortage
(Short"age) n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

Short-breathed
(Short"-breathed`) a.

1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration.

2. Having short life.

Shortcake
(Short"cake`) n. An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

Short circuit
(Short" cir"cuit) (Elec.) A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.

Short-circuit
(Short"-cir`cuit), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Short-circuited; p. pr. & vb. n. Short-circuiting.] (Elec.) To join, as the electrodes of a battery or dynamo or any two points of a circuit, by a conductor of low resistance.

Shortclothes
(Short"clothes`) n. Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, — worn with long stockings.

Shortcoming
(Short"com`ing) n. The act of falling, or coming short; as: (a) The failure of a crop, or the like. (b) Neglect of, or failure in, performance of duty.

Short-dated
(Short"-dat`ed) a. Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys.

Shorten
(Short"en) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shortened ; p. pr. & vb. n. Shortening.] [See Short, a.]

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; as, to shorten work, an allowance of food, etc.

Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.

Dryden.