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SHORT'ENING, participle present tense Making shorter; contracting.

SHORT'ENING, noun Something used in cookery to make paste short or friable, as butter or lard.

SHORT'-HAND, noun [short amd hand.] Short writing; a compendious method of writing by substituting characters, abbreviations or symbols for words; otherwise called stenography.