adv. Along the shore or coast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Longshoreman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + shore. ] On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here shall I die ashore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A frame to hang clothes on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a person who is conspicuous for dressing fashionably, especially one who spends much time or money to acquire clothing. [ PJC ]

a. [ Prob. fr. Sw. kallskör; kall cold + skör brittle. Oxf. E. D. ] (Metal.) Brittle when cold (that is, below a red heat); as, cold-short iron. -- Cold"-short`ness, n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

v. t. To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. “Dishorn the spirit.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dismount; to knock (a person) from a horse. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Naut.) One of several shores used to hold a ship firmly and prevent her moving while the blocks are knocked away before launching. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the part of the seashore between the high-water and and low-water marks. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. 1. (Fine Art) To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. [ 1913 Webster ]

Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Fine Arts) Representation in a foreshortened mode or way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hartshorn plantain (Bot.), an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn. Booth. --
Hartshorn shavings, originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly. Hebert. --
Salt of hartshorn (Chem.), an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts. Brande & C.--
Spirits of hartshorn (Chem.), a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Cold-short. ] (Metal.) Brittle when heated, esp. beyond a red heat; as, hot-short iron. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Being near or moving towards the shore; as, inshore fisheries; inshore currents. -- adv. Towards the shore; as, the boat was headed inshore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ from a Tradename. ] A type of men's underpants without legs, fitting tightly and held by an elastic waistband; also called briefs. Originally a tradename, the term has become common for that type of underpants. [ PJC ]

n. the shore of a lake.
Syn. -- lakeside. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Abbrev. from alongshore. ] Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. “Longshore thieves.” R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Longshoremen [ Abbrev. fr. alongshoreman. ] One of a class of laborers employed about the wharves of a seaport, especially in loading and unloading vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. From the shore; as, an offshore wind; an offshore signal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Located in the waters near the shore; as, offshore drilling. [ PJC ]

3. Operating or located in a foreign country; as, an offshore bank account; offshore mutual funds. [ PJC ]

adj. coming from the sea toward the land; -- of winds and weather; as, an onshore gale. Opposed to offshore.
Syn. -- inshore, seaward. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. On the edge of the land; near the shoreline; as, an onshore lighthouse. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Metal.) Hot-short; brittle when red-hot; -- said of certain kinds of iron. -- Red"-short`ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) All the ground between the ordinary high-water and low-water marks. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Duty paid for goods brought on shore. Grabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

imp. of Shear. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sewer. [ Obs. or Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. schore; akin to LG. schore, D. schoor, OD. schoore, Icel. skor&unr_;a, and perhaps to E. shear, as being a piece cut off. ] A prop, as a timber, placed as a brace or support against the side of a building or other structure; a prop placed beneath anything, as a beam, to prevent it from sinking or sagging. [ Written also shoar. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shored p. pr. & vb. n. Shoring. ] [ OE. schoren. See Shore a prop. ] To support by a shore or shores; to prop; -- usually with up; as, to shore up a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. schore, AS. score, probably fr. scieran, and so meaning properly, that which is shorn off, edge; akin to OD. schoore, schoor. See Shear, v. t. ] The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river. [ 1913 Webster ]

Michael Cassio,
Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come shore. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

In shore, near the shore. Marryat. --
On shore. See under On. --
Shore birds (Zool.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. --
Shore crab (Zool.), any crab found on the beaches, or between tides, especially any one of various species of grapsoid crabs, as Heterograpsus nudus of California. --
Shore lark (Zool.), a small American lark (Otocoris alpestris) found in winter, both on the seacoast and on the Western plains. Its upper parts are varied with dark brown and light brown. It has a yellow throat, yellow local streaks, a black crescent on its breast, a black streak below each eye, and two small black erectile ear tufts. Called also horned lark. --
Shore plover (Zool.), a large-billed Australian plover (Esacus magnirostris). It lives on the seashore, and feeds on crustaceans, etc. --
Shore teetan (Zool.), the rock pipit (Anthus obscurus). [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To set on shore. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no shore or coast; of indefinite or unlimited extent; as, a shoreless ocean. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shorling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, shores or props; a prop; a shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Toward the shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of supporting or strengthening with a prop or shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A system of props; props, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n., a. (Min.) See Schorl, Schorlaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off, as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also, a sheep of the first year's shearing. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest. [ Obs. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. of Shear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Shorter superl. Shortest. ] [ OE. short, schort, AS. scort, sceort; akin to OHG. scurz, Icel. skorta to be short of, to lack, and perhaps to E. shear, v. t. Cf. Shirt. ] 1. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it. Isa. xxviii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

The life so short, the craft so long to learn. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

To short absense I could yield. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking; not coming up to a resonable, or the ordinary, standard; -- usually with of; as, to be short of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

We shall be short in our provision. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Not distant in time; near at hand. [ 1913 Webster ]

Marinell was sore offended
That his departure thence should be so short. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

He commanded those who were appointed to attend him to be ready by a short day. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their own short understandings reach
No farther than the present. Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); -- with of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse them again to war. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth; crisp; as, short pastry. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Metal) Brittle. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Metals that are brittle when hot are called &unr_;ot-short; as, cast iron may be hot-short, owing to the presence of sulphur. Those that are brittle when cold are called cold-short; as, cast iron may be cold-short, on account of the presence of phosphorus. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Stock Exchange) Engaging or engaged to deliver what is not possessed; as, short contracts; to be short of stock. See The shorts, under Short, n., and To sell short, under Short, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In mercantile transactions, a note or bill is sometimes made payable at short sight, that is, in a little time after being presented to the payer. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Phon.) Not prolonged, or relatively less prolonged, in utterance; -- opposed to long, and applied to vowels or to syllables. In English, the long and short of the same letter are not, in most cases, the long and short of the same sound; thus, the i in ill is the short sound, not of i in isle, but of ee in eel, and the e in pet is the short sound of a in pate, etc. See Quantity, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§22, 30. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Short is much used with participles to form numerous self-explaining compounds; as, short-armed, short-billed, short-fingered, short-haired, short-necked, short-sleeved, short-tailed, short-winged, short-wooled, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

At short notice, in a brief time; promptly. --
Short rib (Anat.), one of the false ribs. --
Short suit (Whist), any suit having only three cards, or less than three. R. A. Proctor. --
To come short,
To cut short,
To fall short, etc. See under Come, Cut, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A summary account. [ 1913 Webster ]

The short and the long is, our play is preferred. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. The part of milled grain sifted out which is next finer than the bran. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first remove above bran is shorts. Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Short, inferior hemp. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. Breeches; shortclothes. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we compare the nearest conventional shorts and longs in English, as in “bit” and “beat, ” “not” and “naught, ” we find that the short vowels are generally wide, the long narrow, besides being generally diphthongic as well. Hence, originally short vowels can be lengthened and yet kept quite distinct from the original longs. H. Sweet. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. sceortian. ] To shorten. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To fail; to decrease. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having short-breath, or quick respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having short life. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Elec.) A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Coverings for the legs of men or boys, consisting of trousers which reach only to the knees, -- worn with long stockings. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little time to run from the date. “Thy short-dated life.” Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]