short-toed 
lime (formerly Palm qallicus and Aquila liracliydactyla), 
a bird of prey Inhabiting all the countries bordering tilt- 
Mediterranean, and thence eastward to the whole of the 
Indian peninsula and part of the Malay archipelago. The 
male is 20 inches long ; the female, 30 inches; the pointed 
wings are more than half as long again as the tail ; the tarsi 
are mostly naked ; the nostrils are oval perpendicularly ; 
the head is crested with lanceolate feathers ; and in the 
adult the breast is white, streaked with brown. This bin! 
is the Jean-le-Blanc of early French ornithologists ; its 
book-name short-toed eagle is not very happy, as it is a 
poor example of an eagle, with nothing noticeable about 
its toes. Also called snake-buaard (where see cut). 
short-tongued (short'tungd), a. Having a 
short, thick, fleshy tongue, as a lizard ; crassi- 
lingual. 
short-waisted(8h6rt'was''ted), a. 1. Having a 
short waist or body : applied to persons, and also 
to dresses, coats, or other garments covering the 
body. 2. Pertaining to garments of this char- 
acter: as, short-waisted fashion or style. 3. 
Short-tempered ; touchy ; crusty. [Prov. Eng.] 
short-winded (shdrf winded), . [< ME. 
shortwynded ; < short + wind^ + -ed*.] 1. 
Breathing with difficulty; dyspnoeic. 2. Un- 
able to bear long-continued violent exertion, 
as running, without difficulty of breathing ; out 
of breath. 
Whan the! saugh the Saisnes well chased and short in/tul- 
ed, the! lete renne at hem. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 245. 
Pains. [Reads] "I [Falstaff] will imitate the honour- 
able Romans in brevity : " he sure means brevity in breath, 
short-winded. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., ii. 2. 13. 
3. Panting; characterized by difficulty of 
breathing. 
Find we a time for frighted peace to pant, 
And breathe short-winded accents of new broils. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., i. 1. 3. 
short-windedness(sh6rt'win"ded-nes), . The 
character or state of being short-winded ; dysp- 
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bination with the name of the weapon or mis- 
sile. us a rough measure of length. 
Therby is an other churche of our I-ady, distance from 
the churche of Bethlem .v. arrow ihatttt. 
Sir K. (JiiiiUiirde, Pylgrymage, p. 38. 
And she went, and sat her down . . . a good way off, as 
it were a bows/iof. (Jen. xxi. IB. 
He show'd a tent 
A stone shot off. Tennyson, Princess, v. 
Hence 5. Range in general; reach: as, within 
Balm, taken fasting, ... is very good against short- 
windedness* Rev. T. Adams, Works, I. 374. 
short-winged (short'wingd), a. Having com- 
paratively or relatively short wings: specifi- 
cally noting certain hawks used in falconry, as 
the goshawk, Astur palumbarius, in comparison 
with the true falcons, as the peregrine or ger- 
falcon. 
shprt-witted (short'wifed), . Haying little 
wit ; not wise ; of scanty intellect or judgment. 
Piety doth not require at our hands that we should be 
either short-mtttd or beggarly. 
Sir .17. Hale, Remains, p. 200. (Latham.') 
shory (shor'i), . [< shore 1 + -0 1 .] 1. Lying 
near the shore or coast. [Bare.] 2. Shelving. 
There is commonly a descent or declivity from the shore 
to the middle part of the channel, . . . and those shory 
parts are generally but some fathoms deep. 
T. Burnet, Theory of the Earth, I. 13. 
shostt. A Middle English contracted form of 
shoitldest, the second person singular of the pret- 
erit of shall 1 . 
shot 1 (shot), >i. [Early mod. E. also shotte; < 
ME. sliot, scliot, < AS. ge-sceot, ge-scot, imple- 
ments for shooting, an arrow or dart (= OFries. 
skot, a shot, = D. schot, a shot, shoot, = MLG. 
schot, implements for shooting, an arrow, am- 
munition, = OHG. scoz, MHG. scho~, G. schoss, 
schnss = Icel. skot = Sw. skott = Dan. skud, a 
shot, a shooting), < scedtan (pp. scoten), shoot: 
see shoot, v. Cf. shoot, n.,shot*, .] If. A mis- 
sile weapon ; an arrow; a dart. 
No man therfore, up peyne of los of lyf, 
No maner shot, ne pollax, ne short knyf 
Into the lystes sende, or thider brynge. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1686. 
2. A projectile ; particularly, a ball or bullet ; 
also, such projectiles collectively. Projectils* for 
large guns are seldom called by this name without some 
qualifying term : as, solid shot, round shot, grape-shot. The 
term properly denotes a missile not intended to explode, as 
distinguished from ashell or bomb. Projectiles of unusual 
character, but solid and not explosive, are usually called 
shot with some descriptive word : as, bar-shot, buck-shot, 
chain-shot. 
Storm 'd at with shot and shell. 
Tennyson, Charge of the Light Brigade. 
3. A small ball or pellet, of which a number 
are combined in one charge; also, such pellets 
collectively. They are made by running molten lead 
combined with a little arsenic through a sieve, or pouring 
it from a ladle with a serrated edge from the top of a 
high tower (see shot-tower) into water at the bottom. The 
stream of metal breaks into drops which become spheri- 
cal. To obviate the use of the high tower, various ex- 
pedients have been tried, such as dropping the metal 
through a tube up through which a strong current of air 
is driven, or dropping it through a column of glycerin or 
oil. Such shot is assorted by sizes of the pellets, distin- 
guished by letters (as BB, spoken double-B), or by numbers 
(usually Nos. 1 to 10 or 12), or by specific names (as swan- 
shot, etc.). 
4. The distance passed over by a missile or 
projectile in its flight; range: used, in com- 
Keep you in the rear of your affection, 
Out of the flint and danger of desire. 
Shak., Hauilet, i. S. 35. 
6. Anything emitted, cast, or thrown forth ; a 
shoot. 
Violent and tempestuous storm and shots of rain. 
Ray, Physico- Theological Discourses, p. 221. 
7. Among fishermen, the whole sweep of nets 
thrown out at one time; also, one cast or set 
of the nets; also, the number of fish caught 
in one haul of the nets. See shoot, r. t., 11. 
8. A place where fishermen let out their nets. 
See shoot, r. t., 11. 9. The act of shooting; 
discharge of, or the discharge from, a bow, gun, 
or other missile weapon. 
Whan he moughte no lenger sustaine the xhniii- of dartes 
and arowes, he boldly lepte in to the see. 
Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 17. 
And y had a bow, be the rode, 
On [one] schot scholde yow se. 
Robin Hood and the Potter (Child's Ballads, V. 26). 
That 's a perilous shot out of an elder-gun ! 
Shak., Hen. V., Iv. 1. 210. 
10. One who shoots, especially with a firearm. 
(at) A man armed with a musket or harquebus, as dis- 
tinguished from a pikeman, bowman, or the like ; also, a 
number of men so armed, collectively. 
A guard of chosen shot I had, 
That walked about me every minute while. 
Shak., 1 Heu. VI., 1.4. 53. 
In his passage from his lodging to the court were set 
in a ward flue or sixe thousand shot, that were of the Em- 
perors gard. Ilakluyt's Voyages, I. 459. 
(b) A marksman, especially with reference to his skill : as, 
a good shot ; a crack shot; a wing-sAof. 
He was a capital cricketer ; was so good a shot that any 
house desirous of reputation for its bags on the 12th or 1st 
was glad to have him for a guest. 
Mrs. Qaskell, Wives and Daughters, xiii. 
1 1 . In weaving, a single thread of weft carried 
through the warp at one run of the shuttle. 
12. A defect, of the nature of a streak, in the 
texture of silk and other textiles, caused by 
the interweaving of a thread or threads differ- 
ing from the others in color, quality, or size. 
Compare shot 1 , p. a., 3. 13. In mining, a blast. 
14. A nook; an angle; a plot of land; spe- 
cifically, a square furlong of land; a group of 
strips or allotments, each one furlong in length, 
and together a furlong in width, in the open- 
field system. See field. 
The Infield is divided into three shotn or parts, much 
about eighteen acres in all. 
Scott of Rossie (Maxwell's Sel. Trans., p. 32). (Jamieson.) 
He claps down an enclosure in the middle of my bit 
shot of corn. Scoff, Pirate, xxx. 
15. A move or stroke in a game, as in curl- 
ing or billiards. 16. A stitch in one's side. 
Hnlliicell. [Prov. Eng.] 17. A handful of 
hemp. Halliwcll. [Prov. Eng.] 18. Sperma- 
ceti ; whale-shot A bad Shot, a wrong guess ; a mis- 
take. [Colloq.] 
' I think he was fair, "he said once, but it turned out to 
be a bad shot, the person in question being as black as a 
coal. Mrs. L. B. Watford, Cousins, i. 
A shot In the locker, a reserve of money or provisions ; 
funds; resources. [Colloq.] 
My wife shall travel like a lady. As long as there 's a 
shot in the locker she shall want for nothing. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxvi. 
A snap Shot. -See snap. Barbed Shot. See barbedi. 
Bird-shot, drop-shot of a size used for birds and small 
game generally, especially one of the finer sizes, as No. 7 
or 8. The finest is usually called mustard-seed or dust- 
shot. Some of the largest may also take distinctive names, 
as swan-shot. Canister-shot. Same as case-shot, 1. 
Chilled shot. See chilli. Drop-shot, (a) Shot made 
by dropping or pouring melted lead, as opposed to such 
as are cast, as buck-shot and bullets. See def. 3, above. 
The thick covering of feathers and down with which 
they [swans] are protected will turn the largest drop shot. 
Sportsman's Gazetteer, p. 185. 
(6) Same as dropping fire (which Bee, under drop). Also 
called dropping shot. fancy shot. See fancy. Flower- 
ing shot. Same as Indian-shot. Flying shot, a shot 
fired at something in motion, as a bird onttie wing ; also, 
one who fires such a shot; a wing-shot. Gallery shot. 
See gallery. Head-mold shott. See head-mold. In- 
dian shot. See Indian-shot Mustard-seed shot. See 
mustard-seed. Parthian, random, red-hot, ricochet 
Shot. See the qualifying words. Round Shot, a spheri- 
cal shot; a cannon-ball. Shot of a cable (naut.). (at) 
The splicing of two cables together, or the whole length 
of two cables thus united. (o) A length of rope as it 
comes from the ropewalk ; also, the length of a chain- 
shot-cartridge 
cable between two shackles, generally fifteen fathoms. 
To arm a shot, drop to shot, etc. See the verbs. (See 
also bean-shut, buck-shut, dust-shot, feather-shot, map-shot, 
stcan-xtiot, winy-xhot.) 
shot 1 (shot),!', t. ; pret. and pp. shotted, ppr. 
shotting. [</(/', .] To load with shot : as, 
to shot a gun. 
His order to me was " to see the top chains put upon 
the cables, and the guns shotted." 
It. Knox (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 345). 
shot 1 . Preterit and past participle of shoot. 
shot 1 (shot), p. a. [Pp. of shoot, t 1 .] If. Ad- 
vanced . 
Well shot in yeares he seem'd. Spenser, F. Q., V. vi. 19. 
2. Firm; stable; secure. Hallitcell. [Prov. 
Eng.] 3. Having a changeable color, like that 
produced in weaving by all the warp-threads 
being of one color and all the weft of another; 
chatoyant. Silk is the usual material thus 
woven, but there are also shot alpaca and other 
goods. 
Hoarse 
With a thousand cries is its stream, 
And we on its breast, pur minds 
Are confus'd as the cries which we hear, 
Changing and x7iof as the sights which we see. 
M. Arnold, The Future. 
4. Same as shooted. 
shot' 2 (shot), n. [An assibilated form of scot 2 : 
see sco ft, and of. s/ioi 1 .] 1. A reckoning, or a 
person's share of a reckoning; charge; share 
of expenses, as of a tavern-bill. 
I'll to the alehouse with you presently ; where, for one 
Aof of five pence, thou Shalt have five thousand welcomes. 
Shak., T. G. of V., ii. 5. 9. 
"Come, brothers, be merry," said Jolly Robin, 
" Let us drink, and never give ore ; 
For the shot I will pay, ere I go my way, 
If it cost me live pounds and more." 
Robin Hood and the Butcher (Child's Ballads, V. 36). 
You have had a feast, a merry one ; the shot 
It now to be discharged. 
Shirley, Love's Cruelty, iv. 1. 
2f. A supply or amount of drink, perhaps paid 
for at a fixed rate. 
About noon we returned, had a shot of ale at Slathwaite. 
Meeke, Diary, Jan. 23, 1691. (Dames.) 
Rescue shott. See rescue. To pay the shot. See 
poi/i. To stand shot, to meet tne expense; pay the 
bill. 
Are you to stand shot to all this good liquor? 
Scott, Kenllworth, xix. 
" Bring him some victual, landlord," called out the re- 
cruiting Serjeant. "I'll stand shot." 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xxxiv. 
shot 3 (shot), n. [As shote 1 , < ME. 'scliote, < AS. 
sccotti, a trout. < scedtan, shoot: see shaft. Cf. 
Aofel.] 1. The trout, Salmo fario. [West- 
moreland, Eng.] 2. The grayling, Thywallus 
rulgaris. Also shut, shutt. [Teme river, Eng.] 
shot 4 (shot), w. [Prob. so called as 'shot' or 
rejected: see shot 1 . Cf. s/iote 2 .] 1. An infe- 
rior animal taken out of a drove of cattle or a 
flock of sheep. 2. A young hog; a shote. 
shot s t. A Middle English past participle of 
xltufl. 
shot-anchort (shot'ang"kor), n. Same as shoot- 
anchor for sheet-anchor. 
shot-belt (shot'belt), n. A shoulder- or waist- 
belt, usually of leather, to which a receptacle is 
secured, or several receptacles, for small shot : 
a common form is that which has but a single 
long bag or pouch, with a metal charger at the 
lower end. See cut B under shot-jiouch. 
shot-borer (shot'bdr'er), . A small lignivor- 
ous beetle of the family Scolytidap, as Xylobons 
tlispur, which bores holes in trees to such an ex- 
tent that they seem to have been peppered with 
bird-shot; a pin-borer. See cuts under borer 
and pin-borer. [U. S. and Canada.] 
Shot-bush (shot'bush), . The wild sarsaparilla, 
Araliu inidiraulis: from its shot-like fruit. 
shot-cartridge (shot'kar'trij), M. A cartridge 
containing snot 
instead of a a. A 
bullet, and in- 
tended to serve 
various pur- 
poses, (a) For 
convenience in 
loading a breech- 
loader, the powder 
and shot being 
packed in a metal 
or paper case which 
has the percussion- 
cap at the end. See 
f h 10 - <?>. T capsut filleffwS-sho, U. powder'charee; 
keep the SilOt toge- rf paper partition between the rear end of 
ther and prevent the capsule and the powder. B. rt, paper 
immediate scatter- case to which is fitted the brass base *, with 
intr an it li'-ivt-si thp a reinforcement of layers of paper, c, ce- 
ing as it leaves tne l)iented togethcr; rf> c j oth or fittwadt; <. 
niUZZle, the Car- po^er ; yTshot ; g, paper shot-wad, half as 
tridge of this kind thick as one of the wadsrf; h, primer. 
Shot-cartridges. 
:ase ; b, primer ; 
wooden 
