Word Meanings - CURTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Curt; brief; laconic. Essays and curtal aphorisms. Milton. Curtal dog. See Curtail dog. (more info) docked tail , fr. court short, L. curtus. See Curt,

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• LACONIC; LACONICAL
  1. Expressing much in few words, after the manner of the Laconians or Spartans; brief and pithy; brusque; epigrammatic. In this sense laconic is the usual form. I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• LACONIC
  Laconism. Addison.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• BRIEFLY
  Concisely; in few words.
• LACONICISM
  See POPE
• COURTESAN
  A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot. Lasciviously decked like a courtesan. Sir H. Wotton. (more info) courtier, It. cortigiano; or directly fr. It. cortigiana, or Sp.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• COURT TENNIS
  See TENNIS
• COURT-CUPBOARD
  A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions. A way with the joint stools, remove the court-cupboard, look to the plate. Shak.
• CURTAILER
  One who curtails.
• COURTEPY
  A short coat of coarse cloth. Full threadbare was his overeste courtepy. Chaucer.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• COURTBRED
  Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• COURTESANSHIP
  Harlotry.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• COURT-MARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• DOCKYARD
  A yard or storage place for all sorts of naval stores and timber for shipbuilding.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• SEA BRIEF
  See LETTER
• SEMIBRIEF
  A semibreve.
• OUTCOURT
  An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.
• SPATTER-DOCK
  The common yellow water lily .