FORESHORTEN

foreshorten. Foreshorten, v.t. to shorten the forefingers

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Fore‐short″en (?), v. t. 1. 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. 2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.
Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.