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shortening |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 3. To make deficient (as to); to deprive; -- with of Spoiled of his nose, and shortened of his ears. --Dryden. 4. To make short or friable, as pastry, with butter, lard, pot liquor, or the like {To shorten a rope} (Naut.), to take in the slack of it {To shorten sail} (Naut.), to reduce sail by taking it in From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shortening \Short"en*ing\, n. 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter. 2. (Cookery) That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shortening n 1: fat such as butter or lard used in baked goods 2: act of decreasing in length: "the dress needs shortening"
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