Abbreviate, to abridge, to reduce to a smaller form (used only by Holophernes): “neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh --d ne,” LLL V, 1, 26.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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