Yet even a demi-god must nod betimes, and Titans eat, look ye." Now looking from sun to earth and beholding the shortening of the shadows, Beltane leapt up.

For convenience, cakes are divided into two classes: Those containing butter or a butter substitute and cake containing no shortening.

In addition to the flour each received a piece of bacon or fat meat, from which they got the shortening for their biscuit.

He therefore thinks it lawful for him to ask, and for God to grant, a shortening of the season of his suffering.

| |-| TRANSVERSE OR BENDING STRENGTH: BEAMS When external forces acting in the same plane are applied at right angles to the axis of a bar so as to cause it to bend, they occasion a shortening of the longitudinal fibres on the concave side and an elongation of those on the convex side.

The two terms overlap; but there is a fairly strong tendency to use shorten for reduction in length, and abridge for reduction in quantity or mass.

For diet use omit shortening and sugar.