short heeled (short held)

Having the hind claw short, as a bird: as, the short - heeled field lark (the tree-pipit, Anthus arboreus or trivial is). [Scotch.] shorthorn (short'hôrn), n. One of a breed of cattle having very short horns. The breed originated in the beginning of the nineteenth century in the valley of the Tees in England, but is now spread over all the richly pastured districts of Great Britain. The cattle IMG:content-0929.png:[blocks in formation] I shall be shortly in London. Howell , Letters, I. v. 30. They lost her in a storm that fell shortly after they had been on board. N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 98. (b) In few words; briefly. And shortly to procede in this mater, They chase hym kyng by voice of the land. Generydes (E. E. T. S.), l. 1324. Are not those circumstances true that this gentleman hath so shortly and methodically delivered? Beau. and Fl., Coxcomb, v. 3. I may be permitted to indicate shortly two or three fallacies. Lecky , Europ. Morals, II. 220. (c) Curtly; abruptly; sharply. Litull Johne seid he had won v shyllyngs, And Robyn Hode seid schortly nay. Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, V. 3).