[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

short \short\, 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

   note: metals that are brittle when hot are called ?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

   note: 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, sectsect22, 30.
       1913 webster

   note: 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
see also:
shorter shortest shirt short long quantity 
at short notice short rib short suit to come short to cut short 
to fall short come cut 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

short \short\, 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
see also:
to sell short 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
in short the long and the short the shorts 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

short \short\, v. t. as. sceortian.
   to shorten. obs.
   1913 webster

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

short \short\, v. i.
   to fail; to decrease. obs.
   1913 webster

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

short
     adj 1: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to
            be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short
            flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a
            few short months" ant: long
     2: primarily spatial sense; having little length or lacking in
        length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a
        foot short"; "a short toss" ant: long
     3: low in stature; not tall; "his was short and stocky"; "short
        in stature"; "a short smokestack" ant: tall
     4: not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a
        poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food
        is in short supply"; "short on experience" syn: inadequate,
         poor
     5: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in
        expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in
        cotton" ant: long
     6: of speech sounds especially vowels of relatively short
        duration as e.g. the english vowel sounds in `pat',
        `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' ant: long
     7: containing a large amount of shortening; therefore tender
        and easy to crumble or break into flakes; "shortbread is a
        short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
     8: less than the correct or legal or full amount often
        deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar";
        "regularly gives short weight" syn: light, scantp
     9: used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively brief
        duration
     10: of memory deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short
         memory"
     11: lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem";
         "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided
         the plan"; "myopic thinking" syn: shortsighted, unforesightful,
          myopic
     12: unwilling to endure; "she was short with the slower
         students" syn: unforbearing
     13: quickly aroused to anger; "a hotheaded commander" syn: choleric,
          irascible, hotheaded, hot-tempered, quick-tempered,
          short-tempered
     14: most direct; "took the shortest and most direct route to
         town" syn: shortest
     15: marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a
         less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was
         very short with him" syn: brusque, brusk, curt, shortp
     n 1: the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is
          stationed
     2: accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit
        that have a potential difference syn: short circuit
     3: the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who
        is stationed between 2nd and 3rd base syn: shortstop
     adv 1: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" syn: abruptly,
             suddenly, dead
     2: without possessing something at the time it is contractually
        sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before
        the crash"
     3: clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
     4: at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell
        short of our expectations"
     5: so as to interrupt; "she took him up short before he could
        continue"
     6: at a disadvantage; "i was caught short" syn: unawares
     7: tightly; "she caught him up short on his lapel"
     8: in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me
        curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with
        everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it" syn:
        curtly, shortly
     v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money syn: short-change
     2: create a short-circuit in syn: short-circuit
see also:
long tall inadequate poor light scantp 
shortsighted unforesightful myopic unforbearing choleric 
irascible hotheaded hot-tempered quick-tempered short-tempered 
shortest brusque brusk curt shortp 
short circuit shortstop abruptly suddenly dead 
unawares curtly shortly short-change short-circuit 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

437 moby thesaurus words for "short":
   3-d, bermuda shorts, cinemascope, cinerama, spartan, technicolor,
   western, aback, abbreviate, abbreviated, abridged, abrupt,
   abruptly, adulterated, aggressive, all in all, amount, amplify,
   animated cartoon, apart from, aposiopestic, arrested, badly off,
   bankrupt in, bare of, barring, bear, bear account, bearish,
   beastly, before, bereft of, black-and-white film, blemished, bluff,
   blunt, brash, break, break in on, brief, briefly, brisk,
   broken circuit, brusque, burden, butt in, callow, cartoon,
   cavalier, charge, chiller, chunky, churlish, cinema, circuit,
   circuital field, clipped, close, close-tongued, closed circuit,
   closemouthed, color film, cometary, compact, compendious,
   complete circuit, compressed, concise, condensed, contracted, core,
   couchant, cramped, creepie, crisp, crouched, crusty, cursory, curt,
   curtail, curtailed, curtal, curtate, cut, cut off, cut short,
   damaged, dead circuit, debased, decreased, decurtate, defective,
   deficient, denuded of, depressed, deprived of, depthless,
   destitute of, devoid of, diminished, diminutive, dinky, direct,
   discourteous, distressed, docked, documentary, documentary film,
   down to bedrock, dumb, dumpy, dwarfish, economical of words,
   educational film, electrify, elfin, elliptic, embarrassed,
   embryonic, empty of, energize, epigrammatic, erroneous, except for,
   excepting, excluding, exclusive of, exiguous, fail, failing,
   fallible, faulty, feature, feeling the pinch, few, film, flashing,
   flat, fleet, flick, flicker, flickering, footling, for want of,
   forlorn of, forthwith, found wanting, galvanic circuit, galvanize,
   generate, gist, gnomic, gruff, half-pint, hard up, harsh, hastily,
   horror picture, horse opera, hot circuit, hot pants, hurriedly,
   hypoplastic, ill off, immature, impaired, impecunious, imperfect,
   impolite, imprecise, impure, in queer street, in a nutshell,
   in arrear, in arrears, in default, in default of,
   in narrow circumstances, in reduced circumstances, in short,
   in short supply, in straitened circumstances, in want of,
   inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconsequential,
   inconsiderable, inconsiderate, indisposed to talk, inexact, infant,
   inferior, insignificant, instantaneous, instantly, insufficient,
   interrupt, irascible, knee-high, knocked flat, lacking, laconic,
   laid low, land-poor, lateral circuit, leaving out, leg, lessened,
   limited, little, live circuit, loop, loop in, low, low-built,
   low-hung, low-level, low-leveled, low-lying, low-set, low-statured,
   magnetic circuit, makeshift, meager, meat, mediocre, meteoric,
   microcircuit, midget, miniature, minus, minuscule, missing, mixed,
   momentary, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie,
   moving picture, multiple circuit, multiple series, mum, mute,
   narrow, neap, needing, negligible, newsreel, no great shakes,
   not perfect, nudie, off, offhand, on the edge, one-horse, out of,
   out of pocket, part, partial, patchy, path, penniless,
   peremptorily, petite, petty, photodrama, photoplay, picayune,
   picayunish, picture, picture show, piddling, pinched, pindling,
   pint-sized, pith, pithy, plug in, pocket, pointed, poky, poor,
   poorly off, pornographic film, precluding, preview,
   printed circuit, prone, pruned, puny, purport, quick, quiet, rare,
   recumbent, reduced, reserved, rough, runty, scant, scant of,
   scanty, scarce, scrappy, scrimpy, sententious, series multiple,
   setting aside, severe, shallow, sharp, shock, short account,
   short and sweet, short circuit, short interest, short of,
   short of funds, short of money, short seller, short side,
   short-circuit, short-lived, short-term, short-termed, shorten,
   shortened, shorts, shy, shy of, silent, silent film, sketchy,
   skimp, skimpy, skin flick, skin-deep, slender, slight, small,
   smallish, snappish, sneak preview, snippety, snippy, snug,
   spaghetti western, sparing of words, sparse, speechless, speedy,
   squat, squatty, squeezed, step down, step up, stiffen, stint,
   stooped, stop, straight, straightforward, straitened, strapped,
   stubby, stumpy, stunted, succinct, sudden, suddenly, summary,
   superficial, supine, surly, swift, switch off, switch on,
   synopsized, synoptic, taciturn, talkie, talking picture, temporary,
   terminate, terse, testy, thick, thickset, thriller, thrust, tight,
   tight-lipped, tiny, to the point, tongue-tied, trailer, transient,
   transitory, trifling, trim, trivial, truculent, truncated,
   turn off, turn on, two-by-four, unanticipatedly, unaware,
   unblessed with, uncivil, underdeveloped, underground film,
   undeveloped, unelevated, uneven, unexpectedly, unfinished,
   ungracious, unloquacious, unmoneyed, unperfected, unpossessed of,
   unprosperous, unreached, unsound, untalkative, unthorough, upshot,
   vector field, vest-pocket, void of, wanting, wee, without warning,
   word-bound, wordless

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

short, ok -- u.s. census designated place in oklahoma
   population 2000:    328
   housing units 2000: 143
   land area 2000:     23.781084 sq. miles 61.592721 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.059329 sq. miles 0.153662 sq. km
   total area 2000:    23.840413 sq. miles 61.746383 sq. km
   fips code:            67400
   located within:       oklahoma ok, fips 40
   location:             35.573047 n, 94.506071 w
   zip codes 1990:    
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    short, ok
    short

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