'The shorts' definitions:
Definition of 'The shorts'
From: GCIDE
- Short \Short\, 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]
Words containing 'The shorts'
- In short,
- Short,
- Shortly,
- Shortness,
- for short,
- short of,
- shorts,
- A short cut,
- At short notice,
- Hove short,
- Jockey shorts,
- Short Pump,
- Short circuit,
- Short division,
- Short meter,
- Short rib,
- Short sea,
- Short suit,
- Short, OK,
- Stub short,
- The long and the short,
- To be on short commons,
- To come short,
- To cut short,
- To fall short,
- To sell short,
- To step short,
- bermuda shorts,
- break short,
- caught short,
- come short,
- cut short,
- fall short,
- fall short of,
- in short order,
- in short supply,
- jamaica shorts,
- pepin the short,
- pull up short,
- run short,
- sell short,
- short account,
- short and sweet,
- short aria,
- short bone,
- short covering,
- short hundredweight,
- short iron,
- short letter,
- short line,
- short list,
- short lived,
- short order,
- short pants,
- short ribs,
- short sale,
- short selling,
- short shrift,
- short sleep,
- short sleeve,
- short slip,
- short story,
- short subject,
- short temper,
- short ton,
- short wave,
- short whist,
- short's aster,
- shortness of breath,
- Cold-short,
- Cold-shortness,
- Hot-short,
- Red-short,
- Red-shortness,
- Short Pump, VA,
- Short-breathed,
- Short-circuit,
- Short-circuited,
- Short-circuiting,
- Short-dated,
- Short-handed,
- Short-jointed,
- Short-lived,
- Short-spoken,
- Short-waisted,
- Short-winded,
- Short-witted,
- To heave a cable short,
- To make short boards,
- chuck short ribs,
- short gastric artery,
- short saphenous vein,
- short-beaked,
- short-billed,
- short-bodied,
- short-change,
- short-eared,
- short-grass,
- short-haired,
- short-handled,
- short-headed,
- short-nosed,
- short-order,
- short-range,
- short-run,
- short-sighted,
- short-snouted,
- short-spurred,
- short-staffed,
- short-stalked,
- short-stemmed,
- short-stop,
- short-tailed,
- short-tempered,
- short-term,
- short-winged,
- 00-database-short,
- 00-gcide-short,
- To cover one's short contracts,
- To keep a person on a short leash,
- short-eared owl,
- short-horned buffalo,
- short-horned grasshopper,
- short-leaf pine,
- short-staple cotton,
- short-stop bath,
- short-tailed shrew,
- short-term memory,
- short-toed eagle,
- german short-haired pointer,
- short-billed marsh wren,
- short-spurred fragrant orchid,
- choleric irascible hotheaded hot-headed hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered