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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoot \Shoot\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See {Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, verb (used without an object), sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. [root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject, {Scud}, {Scuttle}, verb (used without an object), {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.
If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. --Shak.
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.
The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. --Boyle.
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.
When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. --A. Tucker.
4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. --Macaulay.
5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps. xxii. 7.
Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. --Dryden.
6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon.
7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden.
8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson.
{To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] ''Are you not glad to be shot of him?'' --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shotten \Shot"ten\, noun [Properly p. p. of shoot; AS. scoten, sceoten, p. p. of sce['o]tan.]
1. Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring. --Shak.
2. Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
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