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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shoot \shoot\, v. t. imp. p. p. shot; p. pr. vb. n.
shooting. the old participle shotten is obsolete. see
shotten. oe. shotien, schotien, as. scotian, v. i.,
sce'otan; akin to d. schieten, g. schie?en, ohg. sciozan,
icel. skj?ta, sw. skjuta, dan. skyde; cf. skr. skund to jump.
root159. cf. scot a contribution, scout to reject,
scud, scuttle, v. i., shot, sheet, shut, shuttle,
skittish, skittles.
1. to let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow
or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile,
as an object.
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if you please
to shoot an arrow that self way. --shak.
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2. to discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; --
followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as
an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
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the two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
another. --boyle.
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3. to strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile;
often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a
word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
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when roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
dove house. --a. tucker.
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4. to send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
emit.
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an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --beau. fl.
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a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
corpses by scores. --macaulay.
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5. to push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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they shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --ps.
xxii. 7.
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beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
--dryden.
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6. carp. to plane straight; to fit by planing.
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two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
else pared with a paring chisel. --moxon.
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7. to pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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she . . . shoots the stygian sound. --dryden.
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8. to variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
color in spots or patches.
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the tangled water courses slept,
shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
--tennyson.
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to be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
colloq. "are you not glad to be shot of him?" --sir w.
scott.
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see also:
shot shooting shotten scot scout scud
scuttle sheet shut shuttle skittish
skittles to be shot of
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shotten \shot"ten\, n. properly p. p. of shoot; as. scoten,
sceoten, p. p. of sce'otan.
1. having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring. --shak.
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2. shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
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