Possible Clues:

• See up about the top; that makes it short
• See up about the cover, how it gets shortened
• Skips over, in a way
• Slurs sounds
• Look up about the lid if one shortens it
• Omits, in pronunciation
• For Caesar, the bottom of this for the march
• Omits a vowel, e.g.
• See up about the cover that one leaves a bit out of
• Drops a letter?