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   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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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., sceótan; akin to D. schieten, G. schieen, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skjta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. √159.  Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles.]
   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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   To shoot an arrow that self way.
   Shak.
   
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   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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   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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   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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   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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   (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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   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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   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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   Shotten , n. [Properly p. p. of shoot; AS. scoten, sceoten, p. p. of sceótan.]
   Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
   Shak.
   
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   Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
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