Foreshorten
Pronunciation : Fore*short"en
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. (Fine Art)
Defn: 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.
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Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913