v (obsolete|transitive) To shorten by omitting parts or details. (defdate|Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century.)(reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =Brown, Lesley | others = | title = The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =Oxford University Press | location =Oxford, UK | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =3| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =)
v (obsolete|intransitive) To speak or write in a brief manner. (defdate|Attested from the late 16th century until the early 17th century.)
v (transitive) To make shorter; to shorten; to abridge; to shorten by ending sooner than planned. (defdate|First attested from around (1350 to 1470).)
v (transitive) To reduce a word or phrase by means of contraction or omission to a shorter recognizable form. (defdate|First attested in the late 16th century.)
v (transitive|mathematics) To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.
a (obsolete) Abbreviated; abridged; shortened. (defdate|Attested from around (1350 to 1470) until the late 17th century)
a (biology) Having one part relatively shorter than another or than the ordinary type. (defdate|First attested in the mid 19th century.)
n (obsolete) An abridgment. (defdate|Mid 16th century.)