Word Meanings - DURA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Short form for Dura mater.
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- SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - MATERIEL
That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - 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. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - MATERIARIAN
See MATERIALIST - 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 - MATERIOUS
See MATERIAL - SHORT-JOINTED
Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short. - SHORT-DATED
Having little time to run from the date. "Thy short-dated life." Sandys. - MATERNITY
The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother. - MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley. - SHORT-WAISTED
Having a short waist. - SHORT
In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as, to stop short in one's course; to turn short. He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for such presumptuous language. Howell. To sell short , to sell, for future delivery, - SHORTENING
That which renders pastry short or friable, as butter, lard, etc. (more info) 1. The act of making or becoming short or shorter. - SHORTSTOP
The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases. - MATERIA MEDICA
1. Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; -- a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. 2. That branch of medical science which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances - SHORT-SPOKEN
Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. - IMMATERIALIST
One who believes in or professes, immaterialism. - IMMATERIAL
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does - DEMATERIALIZE
To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman. - IMMATERIATE
Immaterial. Bacon. - IMMATERIALLY
1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree. - ANIMATER
One who animates. De Quincey.