Shorl (?), n., Shor*la"ceous (&?;), a. (Min.) See Schorl, Schorlaceous.
Shor"ling (?), n. 1. The skin of a sheen after the fleece is shorn off,
as distinct from the morling, or skin taken from the dead sheep; also,
a sheep of the first year's shearing. [Prov. Eng.]
2. A person who is shorn; a shaveling; hence, in contempt, a priest.
[Obs.] Halliwell.
Shorn (&?;), p. p. of Shear.
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.