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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete.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['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}, 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. 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shooting \Shoot"ing\, n. 1. The act of one who or that which shoots; as the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light. 2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain; as a shooting in one's head. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shooting \Shoot"ing\, a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. {Shooting board} (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true. {Shooting box}, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. --Prof. Wilson. {Shooting gallery}, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shooting n 1: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" [syn: {shot}] 2: killing by gunfire
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