Anagrams of: SHORTENS

• make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration

• reduce in scope while retaining essential elements

• make short or shorter

• become short or shorter

• edit by omitting or modifying parts considered indelicate

• the presence of heat

• a state of sexual arousal

• a hot spiciness

• someone who eats lightly or eats snacks between meals

• the chair of state for a monarch, bishop, etc.

• a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination

• the position and power of an exalted person (a sovereign or bishop) who is entitled to sit in a chair of state on ceremonial occasions

• sit on the throne as a ruler

• put a monarch on the throne

• large stinging paper wasp

• a Portuguese title of respect; equivalent to English `Mr'

• not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; marked by truth

• without dissimulation; frank

• worthy of being depended on

• without pretensions

• not forged

• gained or earned without cheating or stealing

• solid-hoofed herbivorous quadruped domesticated since prehistoric times

• a padded gymnastic apparatus on legs

• troops trained to fight on horseback

• a framework for holding wood that is being sawed

• a chessman shaped to resemble the head of a horse; can move two squares horizontally and one vertically (or vice versa)

• provide with a horse or horses