资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            The bed is shorter than that a man can stretch
            himself on it.                        --Isa. xxviii.
                                                  20.

   2. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not
      protracted; as, short breath.

            The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            To short absense I could yield.       --Milton.

   3. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as,
      a short supply of provisions, or of water.

   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.

            We shall be short in our provision.   --Shak.

   5. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a
      measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the
      trith.

   6. Not distant in time; near at hand.

            Marinell was sore offended That his departure thence
            should be so short.                   --Spenser.

            He commanded those who were appointed to attend him
            to be ready by a short day.           --Clarendon.

   7. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive;
      narrow; not tenacious, as memory.

            Their own short understandings reach No farther than
            the present.                          --Rowe.

   8. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or
      equivalent; less (than); -- with of.

            Hardly anything short of an invasion could rouse
            them again to war.                    --Landor.

   9. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short
      answer to the question.

   10. (Cookery) Breaking or crumbling readily in the mouth;
       crisp; as, short pastry.

   11. (Metal) Brittle.

   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.

   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.

   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.

   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, [sect][sect]22, 30.

   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.

   {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.



   {To come out with}, to give publicity to; to disclose.

   {To come over}.
      (a) To pass from one side or place to another.
          ``Perpetually teasing their friends to come over to
          them.'' --Addison.
      (b) To rise and pass over, in distillation.

   {To come over to}, to join.

   {To come round}.
      (a) To recur in regular course.
      (b) To recover. [Colloq.]
      (c) To change, as the wind.
      (d) To relent. --J. H. Newman.
      (e) To circumvent; to wheedle. [Colloq.]

   {To come short}, to be deficient; to fail of attaining. ``All
      have sinned and come short of the glory of God.'' --Rom.
      iii. 23.

   {To come to}.
      (a) To consent or yield. --Swift.
      (b) (Naut.) (with the accent on to) To luff; to bring the
          ship's head nearer the wind; to anchor.
      (c) (with the accent on to) To recover, as from a swoon.
      (d) To arrive at; to reach.
      (e) To amount to; as, the taxes come to a large sum.
      (f) To fall to; to be received by, as an inheritance.
          --Shak.

   {To come to blows}. See under {Blow}.

   {To come to grief}. See under {Grief}.

   {To come to a head}.
      (a) To suppurate, as a boil.
      (b) To mature; to culminate; as a plot.

   {To come to one's self}, to recover one's senses.

   {To come to pass}, to happen; to fall out.

   {To come to the scratch}.
      (a) (Prize Fighting) To step up to the scratch or mark
          made in the ring to be toed by the combatants in
          beginning a contest; hence:
      (b) To meet an antagonist or a difficulty bravely.
          [Colloq.]