shooting 
I fancy we film] 
corns. 
,11 have some rain, by the tthnntiii'i of my 
llMnni'th. Vicnr, XV. 
6. In ntrp., the operation of planing the edge 
of a board straight. =Syn. 1 ('<). llmMity, etc. See 
gunning. 
shooting-board (sho'ting-bord), . A board or 
planed metallic slab with a device for holding 
the object fixed while its edge is squared or re- 
duced by a side-plane. It is used by carpenters and 
joiners, and also by stereotypes in trimming the edges of 
stereotype plates. Also shoot-board. 
shootihg-box (sho'ting-boks), n. A small house 
or lodge for the accommodation of a sportsman 
or sportsmen during the shooting-season. 
shooting-coat (sho'ting-kot), n. An outer coat 
commonly used by sportsmen, generally made 
of corduroy, dogskin, or duck, and containing 
one or more large inside pockets for holding 
game. Also called shooting-jacket. 
Shooting-gallery (sho'ting-'gal"er-i), n. A long 
room or gallery, having a target of some kind, 
and arranged for practice with firearms. 
shooting-iron (sh6'ting-I"ern), . A firearm, 
especially a revolver. [Slang, U. S.] 
Timothy hastily vaulted over the fence, drew his shoot- 
ing-iron from his boot-leg, and, cocking it with a metallic 
click, sharp and peremptory in the keen wintry air, . . . 
Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 78. 
shooting-jacket (sho'ting-jak"et), n. A short 
and plain form of shooting-coat; in general, 
same as shooting-coat. 
Ainslie arrived in barracks . . . without uniforms, and 
without furniture, so he learned a good deal of his drill 
in a shooting-jacket. Whyte Melmlle, White Rose, I. xiii. 
shooting-needle (sho'ting-ne"dl), n. A blast- 
ing-needle ; a metallic rod used in the tamping 
of a drill-hole, with the object of leaving a cav- 
ity through which the charge may be fired, it 
is kept in the hole while the tamping is being done, and 
withdrawn after that operation iscompleted. The general 
use of the safety-fuse has almost entirely done away with 
the old and more or less dangerous method in which the 
shooting-needle or pricker was employed. See needle, 3 
(b). Also called nau. 
shooting-plane (sho" ting-plan), w. In carp., a 
light side-plane for squaring or beveling the 
edges of stuff. It is used with a shooting-board. 
E. H. Knight. 
shooting-range (sho'ting-ranj), . A place used 
for practising shooting, especially rifle-shoot- 
ing, where various ranges or shooting distances 
are measured off between the respective firing- 
points and the targets. 
Shooting-Star (sho'ting-star'), TO. 1. Same as 
falling-star. See star. 2. The American cow- 
slip, Dodecatheon Meadia : so called from the 
bright nodding flowers, which, from the lobes 
of the corolla being reflexed, present an ap- 
pearance of rapid motion. 
ShOOting-stick (sho'ting-stik), n. In printing, 
a piece of hard wood or 
metal, about ten inches 
long, which is struck by shooti,, g -stick. 
a mallet to tighten or loosen the quoins in a 
chase. 
Small wedges, called quoins, are inserted and driven for- 
ward by a mallet and a shooting-stick, so that they grad- 
ually exert increasing pressure upon the type. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 700. 
Shootresst (shot'res), n. [< shooter + -ess.] A 
woman who shoots; a female archer. 
For that proud shootress scorned weaker game. 
Fairfax, tr. of Tasso's Godfrey of Boulogne, xi. 41. 
Shooty (sho'ti), a. [< shoot + -y 1 .] Of equal 
growth or size ; coming up regularly in the rows, 
as potatoes. [Prov. Eng.] 
shop 1 (shop), n. [< ME. shoppe, schoppe, ssoppc, 
shape (> ML. shoppa), < AS. sceoppa, a stall or 
booth (used to translate LL. gazophylacium, a 
treasury), = MD. schop = LG. schuppc, schoppr, 
schup, a shed, = OHG. scopf, scof, MHG. schopf 
(> OF. eschoppe, escho/ie, F. echoppe), a booth, 
G. dial, schopf, a building without walls, a ves- 
tibule; cf. G. schoppen, schuppen (< MD. LG.), 
a shed, covert, cart-house. Hence ult. shippen, 
q. v.] If. A booth or stall where wares were 
usually both made and displayed for sale. 
Ac marchauns metten with hym and made hym abyde, 
And shutten hym in here shoppes to shewen here ware. 
Piers Plowman (C), iii. 223. 
A prentys whilom dwelled in cure citee, 
And of a craft of vitailliers was hee ; . . . 
He loved bet the taverne than the shoppe. 
Chaucer, Cook s Tale, 1. 12. 
A sumptuous Hall, where God (on euery side) 
His wealthie Shop of wonders opens wide. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Uartas's Weeks, i. 1. 
Hence 2. A building, or a room or suite of 
rooms, appropriated to the selling of wares at 
retail. 
351 
5585 
Mr. Hollar went with him ... to take viewes, land- 
scapes, buildings, *c., reniarqueable in their journey, wi> 
wee see now at y print shoppes. 
Aubrey, Lives, Winceslaus Hollar. 
The polish'd counter, and approving none. 
Cowper, Task, vi. 279. 
[In the rural districts and smaller towns of the United 
States the term store takes almost exclusively the place of 
the Britis 
tish shop, but the latter word is in occasional and _v-_ y,jii 
ing use in this sense in large cities. 
shopmate 
the thundering old jail so silent that I could almost have 
beat my brains out. Dickens, Oliver Twist, xvi. 
An obsolete preterit of xliiipt: 
1 (shop'bel), n. A small bell so hung 
To give notice automatically of the opening 
of a shop-door. 
But, at this instant, the shop-bell, right over her head, 
tinkled as if it were bewitched. 
Hau'thorne, Seven Gables, iii. 
'bil), n. An advertisement of a 
Thopke'eper's business, or a list of his goods, 
I was amused by observing over one of the stores, as f frilmtin 
the shops are called, a great, staring, weli-wigged figure printed for C 
painted on the sign, under which was written Lord Eldon. shop-board (shop'bord), . A broad board or 
Capt. B. Hall, Travels in North America, I. 8.] bench on which work (especially tailors' work) 
is done. 
No Error near his [a tailor's] Shop-board lurk'd ; 
He knew the Folks for whom he work'd. 
Prior, Alma, i. 
shop-book (shop'buk), . A book in which a 
tradesman keeps his accounts. 
I will study the learned languages, and keep my shop- 
book in Latin. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Ha 
3. A room or building in which the making, 
preparing, or repairing of any article is car- 
ried on, or in which any industry is pursued : 
as, a machine-s*o/) ; a repair-sftop; a barber's 
shop : a carpenter's s/iop. 
And as for yron and laten to be so drawen in length, ye 
shall se it done in xx shoppis almost in one strete. -.,-, t , . - ., - 
Sir T. M ore, Works, p. 127. 600* in Latin. Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, n. 2. 
Like to a censer in a barber's shop. shop-boy (shop'boi), n. A boy employed in a 
Hence, figuratively 4f. The place where any- shopet. An obsolete preterit and past partici- 
thing is made ; the producing place or source, pie of shape. 
Shopent. An obsolete past participle of shape. 
shop-girl (shop'gerl), w. A girl employed in a 
shop. 
Her personal beauty was an attraction to customers, 
and he valued her aid as shop-girl. 
S. Judd, Margaret, i. 12. 
^ ^ [Heb.] An ancient He- 
brew musical instrument, usually made of the 
curved horn of a ram. Also written shofar. 
Then [he] gan softly feel 
Her feeble pulse, . . . 
Which when he felt to move, he hoped faire 
To call backe life to her forsaken shop. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 43. 
Because I [the belly] am the store-house and the shop 
Of the whole body. Shak., COT., i. 1. 137. 
Galen would have the Liver, which is the Shop and Shophar (sho'far), 
Source of the Blood, and Aristotle the Heart, to be the 
first framed. Howell, Letters, I. iii. 30. 
5. In glass-malting, a team or set of workmen, shopholder (shop'hoFder), . A shopkeeper. 
See the quotation. 
They [glass-makers] are grouped into sets or shops of 
three or four, who work together and share profits to- 
gether on a well-understood grade of division. General- 
ly four constitute a shop, the most skilful workman (the 
blower) at the head, the gatherer (a young fellow) next, 
and two boys, one handling moulds or tools, and the other 
carrying the products to the annealing oven. 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 259. 
6. One's own business, craft, calling, or pro- 
fession; also, talk specifically relating to this: 
used in a ludicrous or contemptuous sense. 
Compare to talk shop, below. 
Had to go to Hartley Row for an Archdeacon's Sunday- 
school meeting, three hours useless (I fear) speechifying 
and shop. Kingsley, Letter, May, 1856. (Dames.) 
All men, except the veriest, narrowest pedants in their 
craft, avoid the language of the shop. 
Q. P. Marsh, Lects. on the Eng. Lang., xi. 
Chow-chow shop. See chow-chow. Fancy shop. 
[Bare.] 
Hit ys ordeyned by the M. and Wardens that at euery 
coste of ale that ys geven into the forsayde ffraternyte and 
Gyld euery shopholder shall spend ther-to j. d. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 315. 
shopkeeper (shop'ke"per), n. [< shop 1 + i 
cr.\ 1. One who keeps a shop for the sale of 
goods; a trader who sells goods in a shop or 
by retail, in distinction from a merchant, or 
one who sells by wholesale ; in general, a 
tradesman. 
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising 
up a people of customers may at tlrst sight appear a pro- 
ject fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. 
Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, IV. vii. 3. 
2. An article that has been long on hand in a 
shop: as, that chair is an old shopkeeper. [Col- 
loq.] 
see shopkeeping (shop'ke"pmg), . 
, ._. hop. of keeping a shop for the sale of goods by retail. 
See/or/.-Thepther.shOp,a rival ,nst,tut,onorestaD. shopU & t ? 8nO p'llft), n. [< sfcopl + K/k] A 
fancy store, under fancy. Forfeits in a barber's shop. 
See forfeit. The other shop, a riv: ' 
lishment of any kind. [Ludicrous.] 
"Senior Wrangler, indeed; that's at the other shop." 
" What is the other shop, my dear child ?" said the lady. 
" Senior Wranglers at Cambridge, not Oxford," said the 
scholar. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxxiv. 
To Shut up Shop, figuratively, to withdraw from or aban- 
don any enterprise. [Colloq.] 
I'll quite give o'er, and shut up shop in cunning. 
Middleton, Women Beware Women, ii. 2. Shoplifter (shop lifter), n. 
If it go on thus, the commissioners may shut up shop. 
' ' tl., II. 21. 
The business 
shoplifter. 
This is to give notice that those who have sustained any 
loss at Sturbridge Fair last, by Pick Pockets or Shop lifts, 
If they please to apply themselves to John Bonner in Shorts 
Gardens, they may receive information and assistance 
therein. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of 
[Queen Anne, II. 232. 
[< shop* + lifter*. ] 
One who purlo'ins goods from a shop; particu- 
larly, one who under pretense of buying takes 
occasion to steal. 
( shop 'lifting), n. Larceny of 
goods committed in a shop ; the stealing of 
goods from a shop. 
More honest, well-meaning people were bubbled out of 
their goods and money by it [Gravity] in one twelve-month 
than by pocket-picking and shop-lifting in seven. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, i. 11. 
Court and Times of Charles j 
To sink the Shop, to refrain from talking about one's 
business, or matters pertaining to it [Colloq.] L , ke tho8e women they call gkop-Hfters, who when they 
There was only one thing he [Story] did not talk about, are challenged for their thefts appear to be mighty angry 
and that was law ; as the expressive phrase goes, he sunk and affronted. Svift, Examiner, No. 28. 
the shop; though this same "shop" would have been a , , . 
subject most interesting. 
Jonah Quincy, Figures of the Past, p. 193. 
To talk shop, to converse in general society about mat- 
ters pertaining to one's own calling or profession. [Col- 
loq.] 
Actors and actresses seem the only artists who are never 
ashamed of talking shop. 
Whyte Melmlle, White Rose, II. vii. 8nO plike (shop'lik), a. [< shop* + likcS.] Hav- 
Shop 1 (shop), v. ; pret. and pp. shopped, ppr. mg the manners or ways of a shop; hence, 
shopping. [< shop'-, .] I. intrans. To visit tricky; vulgar. 
shops or stores for the purpose of purchasing Be 8 " he never w shnp . lite or meretricious, 
or examining goods. B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
We have been a-shopping, as Mrs. Mirvan calls it, all shop-maid (shop'mad), n. A young woman who 
this morning, to buy silks, caps, gauze^and "wtorth^ ^ tends a shop ; a shop-girl. 
She had gone shopping about the dty, Peking entire The ^opmaid, who is a pert wench. Spectator, No. 277. 
depAts of splendid merchandise, and bringing home a rib- shopman (shop'man), n.; pi. shopmen (-men). 
[< shop + man.'} 'A retail trader; a shopkeep- 
er ; also, a salesman in a shop. 
The shopman sells, and by destruction lives. 
Dryden, To his Kinsman, John Dryden, 1. 108. 
I am sure there are many English in Paris who never 
boh. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, xii. 
II. trans. To shut up ; put behind bars ; im- 
prison. [Cant.] 
A main part of his [a bum-bailiff's] office is to swear and 
bluster at their trembling prisoners, and cry, " Confound 
us. why do we wait? Let us shop him." 
Four for a Penny (1678) (Harl. Misc., IV. 147). (Dames.) 
They had likewise shopped up themselves in the highest 
of their house. 
W. Patten, Exped. into Scotland, 1548 (Eng. Garner, 
(III. 86). 
It was Bartlemy time when I was shopped. . . . Arter I 
was locked up for the night, the row and din outside made 
speak to any native above the rank of a waiter or shopman. 
Thackeray, Philip, xxi. 
A Shopman to a Tradesman in Fore-street. 
Quoted in X. and Q., 7th ser., IX. 243. 
shopmate (shop'mat), . [<.s)iop l + nifei.] A 
fellow-workman or a fellow-clerk or -attendant 
in a shop. . 
