The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shorthand \Short"hand`\, n.
   A compendious and rapid method or writing by substituting
   characters, abbreviations, or symbols, for letters, words,
   etc.; short writing; stenography. See Illust. under
   Phonography.
   [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shorthand
    adj 1: written in abbreviated or symbolic form; "shorthand
           notes"
    n 1: a method of writing rapidly [syn: shorthand,
         stenography, tachygraphy]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "shorthand":
   Speedwriting, arrowhead, autograph, autographic, brachygraphy,
   calligraphic, character, chirographic, contraction, cuneiform,
   cursive, demotic character, determinative, engrossed, flowing,
   grammalogue, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
   hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana,
   holograph, holographic, ideogram, ideograph, in longhand,
   in shorthand, in writing, inscribed, italic, italicized, kana,
   katakana, logogram, logograph, longhand, manuscript, ogham,
   on paper, penciled, penned, phonetic, phonetic symbol, phonography,
   pictogram, pictograph, printed, radical, rune, running,
   scriptorial, scriptural, stenographic, stenography, stylographic,
   tachygraphic, tachygraphy, wedge, word letter, written