Foreshorten

Definition of Foreshorten

Fore`short´en

v. t.	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.	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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