shoot 
4. To push or thrust sharply in any direction ; 
dart forth; protrude. 
All they that see me laugh me to scorn ; they shnot out 
the lip, they shake the head. 
Where Hibernia shoots 
Her wondrous causeway far into the main. 
Cowper, To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut. 
Safe bolts are shot not by the key, as in an ordinary 
lock, but by the door handle. Encyc. Brit., XXI. 144. 
5. To put forth or extend in any direction by 
growth or by causing growth : as, a tree shoots 
its branches over the wall: often with up or 
out. 
The high Palme trees . . . 
Out of the lowly vallies did arise, 
And high shoote tip their heads into the skyes. 
Spenser, Virgil's Gnat, 1. 192. 
When it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater 
than all herbs, and fthooteth out great branches. 
Mark iv. 32. 
All the verdant grass 
The spring shot up stands yet unbruised here 
Of any foot. Fletcher, Faithful Shepherdess, ii. 2. 
5584 
And Philip the terse King foule was maimed ; 
A schaft with a scharp hed shet oute his yie. 
Alisaundcr of Macedoine (E. E. T. S.), 1. 277. 
To Shoot spawn, to spawn, as certain fish. For example, 
the male and female shad, in spawning, swim about in 
circles, probably following: the eddies of the stream, 
sometimes with the dorsal fins out of the water; when 
suddenly the whole shoal, as if seized by a common im- 
pulse, dart forward and discharge clouds of milt and spawn 
into the water. To shoot the compass (naut.), to go 
wide of the mark. To SQOOt the pit. See jrffi. To 
shoot the sun, to take the sun's altitude. [Nautical 
slang.] To shoot to spoil, to dump (excavated mate- 
rial) on an inclined surface in such a manner that it will 
shoot or roll down on the declivity. 
The question is simply this whether it is easier to 
chip away 50,000 yards of rock, and shoot it to spoil (to 
borrow a railway term) down a hill-side, or to quarry 
60,000 cubic yards of stone, remove it, probably a mile at 
least, to the place where the temple is to be built, and 
then to raise and set it. 
J. Fergusson, Hist Indian Arch., p. 338. 
shoot (shot), H. [< ME. sliole, sctiote, a shooting, 
throwing, shoot; from the verb. Of. shoft, 
which is the older form of the noun from this 
verb. In senses 8-13 shoot is in part confused 
6. To let fly, or cause to be propelled, as an rD. l wiis in part co, 
^rnwhvreleksinc, the bowstring or a bullet or with chute (also spelled shute) of like mean 
shooting 
I have hunted every wet rock and shute from Rillage 
Point to the near side of Hillsborough. 
Kinsley, 1S49 (Life, I. 161). (Dames.) 
12. An artificial contraction of the channel of 
a stream in order to increase the depth of the 
water. [U. S.] 13. A part of a dam perma- 
nently open or opened at pleasure for any pur- 
pose, as to relieve the pressure at a time of high 
water or to permit the downward passage of tim- 
ber or boats. 
At the tails of mills and arches small, 
Where as the t-hoot is swift and not too clear. 
J. Denmjs (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 171). 
14. Thegameofshovelboard. ffnlliirell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 15. A crick in the neck. HaUiwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 16. A narrow, steep lane. Hal- 
liirell. [Isle of Wight.] 
shootable (sho'ta-bl), . [< shoot + -<Me.~\ 1. 
That can or may be shot. 
I rode everything rideable, shot everything shootable. 
M. W. Savage, Reuben Medlicott, iii. 3. (Dames.) 
2. That can or may be shot over. [Colloq.] 
arrow by releasing the bowstring, or a bullet or 
ball by igniting the charge. 
Than he shette a-nothir bolte, and slowgh a malarde. 
Merlin. (K E. T. S.), ii. 167. 
If the large coverts are not easily shootable. 
Daily News (London), Oct. 8, 1881. (Encyc. Diet.) 
ing and pronunciation but of diff. origin: see 8 l loot _ anc l lort . [Early mod. E. shoteanrre ; 
chute] 1. The act of shooting; the discharge, < K , tmi + (lnc }; orl j A n obsolete form of sheet- 
as of a missile weapon ; a shot. 
You are the better at proverbs, by how much "A fool's 
bolt is soon shot." Shak., Hen. V., iii. 7. 132. 
And such is the end of all which flght against God and 
their Soueraigne : their arrows, which they shoote against 
the clouds, fall downe vpon themselues. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 157. 
7. To discharge (a missile weapon), as a bow 
by releasing its string, or a gun by igniting its 
charge: often with off. 
We shot off a piece and lowered our topsails, and then 
she brailed her sails and stayed for us. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 25. 
But man . . . should make examples 
Which, like a warning-piece, must be shot off, 
To fright the rest from crimes. 
Dryden, Spanish Friar, v. 2. 
kill with a missile discharged from a weapon ; 
put to death or execute by shooting. 
End thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 579. 
When a man shoe 
foremost finger ant. - - D 
Ascham, Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 101. 
anchor. 
This wise reason is their shoteancre and all their hold. 
Tyndale, Works, p. 264. 
shoot-board (shot'bord), n. Same as shooting- 
board. Encyc. Diet. 
He straight commaunded the" g'inner of~ t ne'b'alwarke ShOOted (sho'ted), fl. [< xlioot_ + -CfP.] Planed 
next vnto vs to shoote three shootes without ball. or pared, as with a chisel : said of boards ntted 
Hakluyt's Voyages, II. 186. together. Also shot. 
2. A match at shooting ; also, a shooting-party. Boards without shooted edges (undressed). 
And therefore this marcke that we must shoot at, set V. S. Com. Jlep., No. Iv. (1885), p. 665. 
vp wel in our sight, we shal now meat for y shoot, and shooter (sho'ter), M. [< ME. shoter, sheter, sse- 
consider how neare toward or how farre of your arrowes ^ ssiete re, < AS. seeotere, a shooter, < sccotan, 
- - shoot: see shootl.] 1. One who shoots: most 
commonly used in composition, as in the term 
sharp-shooter. 
The ssetares donward al uor nost vaste slowe to grounde, 
8. To strike with anything shot ; hit, wound, or 3 ^ young branch which shoots out from the So that Harald thoru the neye [eye] yssotte was dethe's 
i_;n :n, A ...:.; i. . i ;...!,..,.,.... i f*r\m -, w^or^n * . , . .*i _ ii_ - wounde. Jiob. of Gloucester, 1. 159. 
See then the quiver broken and decay'd, 
In which are kept our arrows ! Rusting there, , 
Apollo, with Jupiter's connivance, shot them all dead 
ivith his arrows. Bacon, Political Fables, vi. 
Oh ! who would flght and march and countermarch, 
Be shot for sixpence in a battle-field? 
Tennyson, Audley Court. 
9. To pass rapidly through, under, or over : as, 
to shoot a rapid or a bridge. 
She sinks beneath the ground 
With furious haste, and shoots the Stygian sound 
To rouse Alecto. Dr>/den, -Uneid, vii. 450. 
10. In mining, to blast. 
They [explosives] are used in the petroleum industry to 
shoot the wells, so as to remove the parafline which pre- 
vents the flow of oil. Smbner's Mag., III. 576. 
11. To set or place, as a net; run out into 
position, as a seine from the boat; pay out; 
lay out : as, the lines were shot across the tide. 
[Drift-nets] ... are cast out or shot. 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 251. 
12. To hunt over; kill game in or on 
loq.] 
We shall soon be able to shoot the big coverts in the 
hollow. Daily News (London), Oct. 6, 1881. (Encyc. Diet.) 
13. In carp., to plane straight, or fit by planing. 
Two pieces of wood that are shot that is, planed or 
pared with a paring-chisel. Moxon. 
14. To variegate, as by sprinkling or inter- 
mingling different colors ; give a changing 
color to; color in spots, patches, or threads; 
streak; especially, in wearing, to variegate or 
render changeable in color by the intermixture 
Sir T. More, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 33. 
At the great shoots which took place periodically on his 
estate he was wont to be present with a walking-stick in 
his hand. W. E. Norris, Major and Minor, xxv. 
main stock; hence, an annual growth, as the 
annual layer of growth on the shell of an oyster. 
The bourderis about abasshet with leuys, 
With shotes of shire wode shene to heholde. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 330. 
Overflowing blooms, and earliest shoots 
Of orient green, giving safe pledge of fruits. 
Tennyson, Ode to Memory. 
4t. A sprouting horn or antler. 
Thou want'st a rough pash [head] and the shoots that I have 
To be full like me. Shak., W. T., i. 2. 128. 
5t. Range; reach; shooting distance; shot. 
Compare ear-shot, and shoft, n., 5. 
Hence, and take the wings 
Of thy black infamy, to carry thee 
Beyond the shoot, of looks, or sound of curses. 
Beau, and Fl., Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 2. 
Every night vpon the foure quarters of his house are 
foure Sentinels, each from other a slight shoot. 
Capt. John Smith, Works, 1. 142. 
6. The thrust of an arch. 7. One movement 
of the shuttle between the threads of the warp, 
They shame their shooters with a random flight. 
Cowper, Task, ii. 807. 
[Formerly used attributively, in the sense of 'useful for 
shooting, as for bows in archery.' 
The shetere ew [yew], the asp for shaftes pleyne. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 180. 
The shooter ewe [yew], the broad-leav'd sycamore. 
Fairfax.] 
2. An implement for shooting; a pistol or gun : 
usually compounded with some descriptive 
word, forming a compound term denoting the 
kind of weapon : as, a pea-shooter; & six-shooter 
(a revolver). 3. A shooting-star. [Rare.] 
Methought a star did shoot into my lap ; . . . 
But I have also stars, and shooters too. 
G. Herbert, Artillery. 
4. The guard of a coach. 
He had a word for the ostler about "that gray mare," 
a nod for the " shooter " or guard, and a bow for the drags- 
man. Thackeray, Shabby Genteel Story, i 
pp , '**j vyv..^v. v .~ w v_ ~- .._- r man. I nacKtruy, rMiauuy oeiiteei otoij, I. 
toward the right or left; also, the thread put into shooter . SIln ( 8 h6'ter-sun), n. [Prob. an accom. 
U-r, Tiljiiin i n -nrah Kir rhio mrvir>OYir \n-tn-i> tj******"^** 
its place in a web by this movement ; hence, 
a thread or strand of the weft of any textile. 
8. In mining: (a) An accumulation or mass of 
ore in a vein, of considerable extent and having 
some regularity of form ; a chimney. See cMm- 
nei/,4 (b). In some mines the shoots or chimneys of ore 
have, although narrow, a remarkable persistency in depth 
and parallelism with each other. (6) Any passage- 
way or excavation in a mine down which ore, 
coal, or whatever is mined is shot or allowed 
to fall by gravity : a term used chiefly in coal- 
in the past participle. See shoft, p. a. 
Her [Queen Elizabeth's] gown was white silk, . . . and 
over it a mantle of bluish silk shot with silver threads. 
P. Hentmer (1602), quoted in Draper's Diet., p. 300. 
Great elms o'erhead 
Dark shadows wove on their aerial looms, 
Shot through with golden thread. 
Longfellow, Hawthorne. 
wore a pink satin robe, shot with sil- 
First Year of a Silken Meign, p. 60. 
lellLItn ClliilltiC^ULC 111 ^WlWA l/Y LUC imJ^luJXAVUiv ' * . 1137J 1 1. t 
of a warp and weft of different colors: chiefly mines, and sometimes spelled chute and shute 
- ~ - - It is synonymous with nnll and pass in metal- 
mines. 9. A sloping trough, or a long narrow 
box vertically arranged, for conveying articles 
to a receptacle below, or for discharging ballast, 
ashes, etc., overboard from a ship ; also, an in- 
clined waterway for floating logs: as, a shoot 
for grain, for coal, for mail-matter, for soiled 
clothes, etc. ; also, a passageway on the side of 
a steep hill down which wood, coal, etc., are 
thrown or slid. 10. A place for shooting rub- 
bish into. 
Two of the principal shoots by the river side were at 
Bell-wharf, Shadwell, and off Wapping-street. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor, II. 287. 
11. A river-fall or rapid, especially one over 
which timber is floated or through which boats 
or canoes can shoot. 
A single shoot carried a considerable stream over the 
face of a black rock, which contrasted strongly in colour 
with the white foam of the cascade. 
Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, 1. 
Her Majesty 
ver. 
As soon as the great black velvet pall outside my win- 
dow was shot with gray, I got up. 
Dickens, Great Expectations, ii. 
I'll be shot, a mild euphemistic imprecation. [Vulgar.] 
I'll be shot if it ain't very curious ; how well I knew that 
picture ! Dickens, Bleak House, vii. 
To be shot of, to get quit of : be released from. See to be 
shut of, under shut. [Colloq.] 
Are you not glad to be shot of him? Scott. 
To shoot Off or out, to remove or separate from its place 
or environment by shooting : as, to shoot off the plume 
from a helmet ; an arm was shot off by a cannon-ball. 
E. form of some E. Ind. name.] An Indian sea- 
serpent of the genus Hydrophis, H. obscura, of 
the waters off Madras. 
shooting (sho'ting), H. [< ME. shetynge, < AS. 
sceotung, verbal n. of sceotan, shoot: see shoot, 
V.I 1. The act of one who shoots, (a) The act 
or practice of discharging missile weapons. 
Thei satte and laped.aml pleyed with hymalleto-geder; 
and of the shetynge that thei hadde seyn. and of the wordes 
that he hadde seide to the kynge. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 170. 
Our king hath provided a shooting match. 
KoKn Hoods Progress to Nottingham (Child's Ballads, 
[V. 291). 
(b) Especially, at the present day, the killing of game with 
firearms; gunning. 
Some love a concert, or a race : 
And others shooting, and the chase. 
Cou-per, Love of the World Eeproved. 
2. A right, purchased or conferred, to kill game 
with firearms, especially within certain limits. 
[Great Britain.] 
As long as he lived, the shooting should be Mr. Palmer's, 
to use or to let, and should extend over the whole of the 
estate. George MacDonald, What's Mine's Mine, xli. 
3. A district or defined tract of ground over 
which game is shot. [Great Britain.] 4. A 
quick dart; a sudden and swift motion. 
Quick shootings, like the deadly zigzag of forked light- 
Daily Telegraph (London), Sept. 15, 1885. (Encyc. Diet.) 
5. A quick, glancing pain, often following the 
track of a nerve. 
