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In shorthand, skill’d, where little marks comprise 
Whole words, a sentence in a letter lies. Creech. 
SHORT-JOINTED, a horse is said to be short-jointed, 
that has a short pastern. 
SHORTLIVED, adj. Not living or lasting long. 
Unhappy parent of a shortliv d son ! 
Why loads he this embitter’d life with shame. Dryden. 
Admiration is a shortliv'd passion, that immediately de¬ 
cays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still 
fed with fresh discoveries. Addison. 
SHO'RTLY, ado. [jceopclice, Sax.] Quickly; soon; 
in a little time. It is commonly used relatively of future 
time, but Clarendon seems to use it absolutely.—The armies 
came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. —The time 
will shortly come, wherein you shall more rejoice for that 
little you have expended for the benefit of others, than in that 
which by so long toil you shall have saved. Galamy .— 
In a few words; briefly.—I could express them more shortly 
this way than in prose, and much of the force as well as 
grace of arguments, depends on their conciseness. Pope. 
SHO'RTNESS, s. [pceopfcnyjye. Sax.]—The quality 
of being short, either in time or space. 
I’ll make a journey twice as far, t’ enjoy 
A second night of such sweet shortness, which 
Was mine in Britain. Shahspeare. 
They move strongest in a right line, which is caused by the 
shortness of the distance. Bacon. —Fewness of words; bre¬ 
vity ; conciseness.—The necessity of shortness causeth men 
to cut off impertinent discourses, and to comprise much 
matter in a few words. Hooker. —Want of reach ; want of 
capacity.—Whatsoever is above these proceedeth of short¬ 
ness of memory, or of want of a stayed attention. Bacon. 
—Deficience; imperfection.—Another account of the short¬ 
ness of our reason, and easiness of deception, is the forward¬ 
ness of our understanding’s assent to slightly examined con¬ 
clusions. Glanville. 
SHORTRIBS, s. The ribs below the sternum.—A gen¬ 
tleman was wounded in a duel; the rapier entered into his 
right side, slanting by his shortribs under the muscles. 
Wiseman. 
SHORTSIGHTED, adj. Unable to see far.— Short¬ 
sighted men see remote objects best in old age, therefore they 
are accounted to have the most lasting eyes. Newton. —Un¬ 
able by intellectual sight to see far. 
The foolish and shortsighted die with fear 
That they go no where, or they know not where. Denham. 
SHORTSIGHTEDNESS, s. Defect of sight, proceeding 
from the convexity of the eye.—The ordinary remedy for 
shortsightedness is a concave lens, held before the eye; 
which, making the rays diverge, or at least diminishing 
much of their covergency, makes amends for the too great 
convexity of the crystalline. Chambers. —Defect of intel¬ 
lectual sight.—Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness, that 
discovers the minutest objects which are near at hand, but is 
not able to discern things at a distance. Addison. 
SHO'RTWAISTED, adj. Having a short body. 
Duck-’.egg’d, shortwaisted; such a dwarf she is. 
That she must rise on tip-toes for a kiss. Dryden. 
SHORWELL, a village and parish of England, in the 
Isle of Wight, beautifully situated in a valley. The church 
has a neat spire and a stone pulpit, and contains several 
handsome monuments of the Leigh family. Population 561; 
5 miles from Newport. 
SHO'RTWINDED, adj. Shortbreathed; asthmatic; 
pursive; breathing quickly.—Sure he means b evity in 
breath; shortwinded. Shakspeare. 
With this the Mede shortwinded old men eases. 
And cures the lungs unsavory diseases. May. 
SHORTWINGED, adj. Having short wings. 
Shortwing'd, unfit himself to fly, 
Jlis fear foretold foul weather. Dryden. 
SHORT WI'TTED, adj. Simple; without sense.—Piety 
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doth not require at our hands, that we should be either short- 
witted or beggarly, but hath its part in all the blessings of this 
world, whether it be of soul or body, or of goods.. Hales. 
SHO'RY, adj. Lying near the coast. Unused. —There 
is commonly a declivity from the shore to the middle part of 
the channel, and those shory parts are generally but some 
fathoms deep. Burnet. 
SHOSHONEES. See Snake Indian. 
SHOSTACK, in Commerce, a money of account in 
Poland and Hungary. 
SHOT. The preterite and participle passage of shoot .— 
Their tongue is an arrow shot out, it speaketh deceit. Jerc- 
miuh. —The same metal is naturally shot into quite different 
figures, as quite different kinds of them are of the same figure. 
Woodward. 
He prone on ocean in a moment flung. 
Stretch'd wide his eager arms, and shot the seas along. Pope . 
SHOT of. part. Discharged; quit; freed from : a col¬ 
loquial expression, as he cannot get shot of it. 
SHOT, s. [schot, Dutch.] The act of shooting..— 
A shot unheard gave me a wound unseen. Sidney. —He 
caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the 
king’s army. Clarendon. —The missile weapon emitted by 
any instrument. 
I shall here abide the hourly shot 
Of angry eyes. Shakspeare. 
Sometimes bullets; but more commonly the smaller bodies 
used for shooting birds.—At this booty they were joyful, for 
that they were supplied thereby with good store of powder 
and shot. Hayward. —Any thing emitted, or cast forth.— 
Violent and tempestuous storm and shots of rain. Ray .— 
[Escot, French; j'ceac, Sax., schat, Teut., skatts, Goth, 
money, a piece of money.] A sum charged; a reckoning. 
—A man is never welcome to a place, till some certain shot 
be paid, and the hostess say welcome. Shakspeare. 
As the fund of our pleasure, let each pay his, shot; 
Far hence be the sad, the lewd fop, and the sot. B. Jonson. 
SHOTE, s. [pceofca, Saxon] A fish; a species of 
salmon.—The shote, peculiar to Devonshire and Cornwall, 
in shape and colour resembleth the trout; hovvbeit, in bigness 
and goodness cometh far behind him. Carew. 
SHOTERY, a hamlet of England, in Warwickshire, west 
of Stratford-upon-Avon. 
SHOTFORD, or Scotford Bridge, a hamlet of 
England, in Norfolk; H mile east-south-east of Harleston. 
SHO'TFREE, adj. Clear of the reckoning.—Though I 
could ’scape shotfree at London, I fear the shot here; here’s 
no scoring but upon the pate. Shakspeare. —Not to be in¬ 
jured by shot.—He is as mad that thinks himself an urinal, 
and will not stir at all for fear of cracking, as he that believes 
himself to be shotfree, and so will run among the hail of a 
battle. Feltham .—Unpunished. 
SHOTLEY, a township of England, in Northumberland; 
10 miles south-east of Hexham. Population 517. 
SHOTLEY, a parish of England, in Suffolk; 7 miles 
south-east of Ipswich. 
SHOTLEY BRIDGE, a small village of England, 
county of Durham, situated upon the banks of the Derwent; 
14 miles north-west of Durham. 
SHOTOVER, a hamlet of England, in Oxfordshire; 
4 miles east-by-north of Oxford. Shotover forest and 
hill, in the neighbourhood, is remarkable for its large 
timber, and for the excellent ochre found in it, a sort of 
earth similar in its quality to fullers’ earth, for taking grease 
out of clothes. It is also noted for an excellent kind of 
tobacco-pipe clay, which is much used in modelling. 
SHOTOVER HILL, a hill of England, in Oxfordshire, 
599 feet high. 
SHOTT, an extensive plain, situated on the southern ex¬ 
tremity of the territory of Algiers, bordering on the Sahara. 
This plain, which is 50 miles in length, and about 12 in 
breadth, is, according to the season of the year, either co¬ 
vered with salt or overflowed with water. Several parts of 
it 
