Index of English words, starting with "sh"

(1) - 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.
(2) - Shorten (a.) To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like.
(3) - Shorten (a.) To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of.
(4) - 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.
(5) - 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.

(1) - Shortener (n.) One who, or that which, shortens.

(1) - Shortening (n.) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc.
(2) - Shortening (n.) The act of making or becoming short or shorter.
(3) - Shortening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shorten

(1) - 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.