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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Short \Short\, adv.
   In a short manner; briefly; limitedly; abruptly; quickly; as,
   to stop short in one's course; to turn short.
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         He was taken up very short, and adjudged corrigible for
         such presumptuous language.              --Howell.
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   To sell short (Stock Exchange), to sell, for future
      delivery, what the party selling does not own, but hopes
      to buy at a lower rate.
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