Short

1. v. i. To fail; to decrease.
2. superl. Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.
3. superl. Not extended in time; having very limited duration; not protracted; as, short breath.
4. superl. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty; as, a short supply of provisions, or of water.
5. superl. 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.
6. superl. Deficient; defective; imperfect; not coming up, as to a measure or standard; as, an account which is short of the trith.
7. superl. Not distant in time; near at hand.
8. superl. Limited in intellectual power or grasp; not comprehensive; narrow; not tenacious, as memory.
9. superl. Less important, efficaceous, or powerful; not equal or equivalent; less (than); — with of.
10. superl. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question.
11. 1v. i. 1 To fail; to decrease.
12. 1superl. 1 Not long; having brief length or linear extension; as, a short distance; a short piece of timber; a short flight.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.