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 the old participle shotten is obsolete.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