Short. [Rarely used, and not elegant.]
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The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Curtail dog
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A dog whose tail is cut off, according to the forest laws, and therefore hindered from coursing.
One who curtails.
Cutting short or shorter; abridging.
of Curtail
The act or result of curtailing or cutting off.
1. A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use. Also, the hangings about the ark, among the Israelites.
2. A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators. This is raised or let down by cords. Hence the phrases, to drop the curtain to close the scene, to end; to raise the curtain or the curtain will rise, to denote the opening of the play. And to draw the curtain is to close it, to shut out the light or to conceal an object; or to open it and disclose the object. Behind the curtain in concealment, in secret.
3. In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.
4. In scripture, tents; dwellings. Habakkuk 3:7 .
To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
1. A hanging screen intended to darken or conceal, and admitting of being drawn back or up, and reclosed at pleasure; esp., drapery of cloth or lace hanging round a bed or at a window; in theaters, and like places, a movable screen for concealing the stage.
2. That part of the rampart and parapet which is between two bastions or two gates. See Illustrations of Ravelin and Bastion.
3. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
4. A flag; an ensign; -- in contempt.
To inclose as with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
Reproof given in bed by a wife to her husband.
of Curtain
Curtal ax
Webster's Dictionary 1913
Alt. of Curtelasse
Curtal friar
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A friar who acted as porter at the gate of a monastery.
The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.
The interval between a planets distance from the sun and the curtate distance.
The interval by which the curtate distance of a planet is less than the true distance.
Curtelasse
Webster's Dictionary 1913
A corruption of Cutlass.
Shortness Roget’s Thesaurus §201
N. shortness, brevity, littleness, a span, shortening, abbreviation, abbreviature, abridgment, concision, retrenchment, curtailment, decurtation|, reduction, epitome, elision, ellipsis, conciseness, abridger, epitomist, epitomizer
V. be short, render short, shorten, curtail, abridge, abbreviate, take in, reduce, compress, epitomize, retrench, cut short, obtruncate, scrimp, cut, chop up, hack, hew, cut down, pare down, clip, dock, lop, prune, shear, shave, mow, reap, crop, snub, truncate, pollard, stunt, nip, check the growth of, foreshorten
Adj. short, brief, curt, compendious, compact, stubby, scrimp, shorn, stubbed, stumpy, thickset, pug, chunky, decurtate, retrousse, stocky, squab, squabby, squat, dumpy, little, curtailed of its fair proportions, short by, oblate, concise, summary
Adv. shortly, in short
Conciseness Roget’s Thesaurus §572
N. conciseness, brevity, "the soul of wit", laconism, tacitus, ellipsis, syncope, abridgment, compression, epitome, monostich, brunch word, portmanteau word
Adj. concise, brief, short, terse, close, to the point, exact, neat, compact, compressed, condensed, pointed, laconic, curt, pithy, trenchant, summary, pregnant, compendious, succinct, elliptical, epigrammatic, quaint, crisp, sententious
Adv. concisely, briefly, summarily, in brief, in short, in a word, in a few words, for shortness sake, to come to the point, to make a long story short, to cut the matter short, to be brief, it comes to this, the long and the short of it is
Phr. brevis esse laboro obscurus fio
Taciturnity Roget’s Thesaurus §585
N. silence, muteness, obmutescence, taciturnity, pauciloquy, costiveness|, curtness, reserve, reticence, man of few words
V. be silent, keep silence, keep mum, hold one's tongue, hold one's peace, hold one's jaw, not speak, &c. 582, say nothing, keep one's counsel, seal the lips, close the lips, button the lips, zipper the lips, put a padlock on the lips, put a padlock on the mouth, put a bridle on one's tongue, bite one's tongue, keep one's tongue between one's teeth, make no sign, not let a word escape one, keep a secret, not have a word to say, hush up, hush, lay the finger on the lips, place the finger on the lips, render mute, stick in one's throat
Adj. silent, mute, mum, silent as a post, silent as a stone, silent as the grave, dumb, unconversable, taciturn, sparing of words, closetongued, costive|, inconversable|, curt, reserved, reticent
Phr. cave quid dicis quando et cui, volto sciolto i pensieri stretti
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Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.
“You are to construct the tabernacle itself with ten curtains of finely spun linen, each with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and cherubim skillfully worked into them.
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.
Five of the curtains are to be joined together, and the other five joined as well.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.
Make fifty gold clasps as well, and join the curtains together with the clasps, so that the tabernacle will be a unit.
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
You are to make curtains of goat hair for the tent over the tabernacle—eleven curtains in all.
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
And for the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits: their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
The curtains on the west side of the courtyard shall be fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten bases.
The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Make the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases,
And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
and the curtains on the other side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.