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Webster 1913 Edition
Foreshorten
Fore-short′en
,Verb.
T.
1.
(Fine Art)
To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie
Foreshortened
in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Foreshorten
FORESHORT'EN
,Verb.
T.