shot-cartridge 
being made commonly of wire and pasteboard, and the 
charge of shot being inclosed in a wire net. Distinctively 
called wire-cartridye. 
shot-clogt (sliot'klog), it. A person who is a 
mere clog on a company, but is tolerated be- 
cause he pays the shot for the rest. 
A gull, a rook, a shot-clog, to make suppers, and be 
laughed at? B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. 
Drawer, take your plate. For the reckoning there 's 
some of their cloaks ; I will be no xhot-cloy to such. 
Amends far Ladies, p. 51. (tlallittell.) 
shot-compressor (shot'kom-pres"or), n. Iii 
miiy., a forceps used to secure the ends of a 
ligature by fastening a split leaden shot upon 
them, instead of tying them. 
shot-corn (shot'koru),H. A small shot. [Rare."] 
A gun was levelled at Clarke by some one very near at 
hand. One single shot-corn struck him in the inside of 
the right thigh. N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 221. 
shot-crossbow (shot'kros'bo), . A crossbow 
in the stock of which a gun -barrel was inserted, 
and which served at will as a firearm or an 
arbalist. 
shote 1 (shot), re. [Also shot, a trout (see shot 3 ) ; 
< ME. *schote, < AS. sceota, a trout, < seedtan, 
shoot: see shoot.'] Same as shot 3 . 
The skote, peculiar to Devonshire and Cornwall, in shape 
and colour resembleth the trout ; howbeit, in bigness and 
goodness cometh far behind him. 
R. Carew, Survey of Cornwall. 
shote 2 (shot), n. [Alsoshoat, E. dial, also shoot, 
shot,f ormerly also shete: see shot*, and cf . sholt.'] 
1. A young hog; a pig. 
Yong shoates or yong hogs, nefrendes. 
Withals' Diet. (ed. 1608), p. 72. (Nare.) 
Cachet, a Cockerel or Cock-chick ; also a shote, or shete, 
Pig. Cotgmve. 
2. A thriftless, worthless fellow : used gener- 
ally with some derogatory adjective, as poor or 
miserable. [Prov. Eng. and TJ. S.] 
shotert, Same as shatter. 
shpt-flagon (shot'flag"on), K. The host's pot, 
given where the guests have drunk above a 
shilling's worth of ale. Halliuiell. fProv. 
Eng.] 
shot-free (shot'fre), a. Same as scot-free, 2. 
As. But pray, why must they be punish'd that carry off 
the Prize? 
But. Lest their too great Felicity should expose them 
to Envy, if they should carry away the Prize and go Shot- 
free too. N. Bailey, tr. of Colloquies of Erasmus, I. 428. 
shot-gage (shot'gaj), . An instrument for 
testing cannon-projectiles. Shot-gages are of two 
kinds ring-gages and cylinder-gages. Two sizes of the 
first kind are employed for each caliber. The shot or 
shell must pass through the larger, but not through the 
smaller. It is afterward rolled through the cylinder- 
gage, any jamming or sticking in which causes the rejec- 
tion of the projectile. 
shot-garland (shot'gar"land), ii. 1. See shot 
garland, under garland. 2. In land-batteries, 
an iron or wooden stand on which shot and 
shell are piled in order to preserve them from 
deterioration. 
shot-glass (shot'glas), it. In weaving, same as 
cloth-prover : so called because fitted for count- 
ing the shots in a given piece of textile. 
shot-gromet (shot'grom"et), n. See grotnet. 
shot-gun (shot'gun), H. A smooth-bore gun 
used for firing small shot, as in the chase of 
birds and small quadrupeds; a fowling-piece: 
commonly called gun simply, in implied- dis- 
tinction from rifle or other small-arm. Some 
shot-guns are too heavy to be brought to the shoulder. 
(See punt-gun, duckiny-ffun.) Shot-guns are usually either 
single-barreled or double-barreled ; rarely a third barrel is 
added ; sometimes one of the barrels is rifled (see the 
quotation). Besides being smooth-bored, a shot-guii dif- 
fers from any form of rifle in having no hind-sight and 
a simple pin as fore-sight. Shot-guns are also distin- 
guished as muzzle-loaders and breech-loaders; the former 
are little used now. Though the bore is always smooth, 
it is often contracted toward the muzzle to concentrate 
the discharge. (See choke-bore.) The standard shot-gun now 
most used by sportsmen is the double-barreled breech- 
loader, of 7 to 10 pounds weight, about 30 inches length of 
barrel, length and drop of stock fitting the shooter, often 
with pistol-grip, caliber usually 10, 12, or 14, and taking 
corresponding sizes of paper or metal shot-cartridges (see 
shell) with center-fire primers or percussion-caps and an 
automatic ejector; such as have the cock or hammer 
concealed in the mechanism of the lock are specified 
as hammerless. The special makes are numberless, hut 
decided variations from the standard pattern are rare. 
Shot-guns are seldom fitted with hair-triggtrs, but usual- 
ly with rebounding locks, in which the hammer flies back 
to half-cock on delivering the blow on the plunger. A 
special form of shot-gun, used by naturalists, is described 
under cane-ijun. 
The combination of a rifle and shot-gun in one double- 
barrel weapon is much esteemed by South African sports- 
men. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 192. 
Shot-gun policy, in U. S. polit. slany, a name used by par- 
tizan extremists in the North to denote the alleged politi- 
cal control of negro voters in the South by violence and 
intimidation. Snot-gun prescription, in med., a pre- 
5591 
scription which contains a great number of drugs of vary- 
ing properties. [Colloq.] Shot-gun quarantine. Sec 
qimrantine. 
shot-hole (shot/hoi), n. A hole made by the 
passage of a shot tired from a gun ; also, a 
blasting-hole or drill-hole charged and pre- 
pared for a blast or "shot," as this term is 
sometimes used by miners. 
shot-ice (shot'is), it. A sheet of ice. Hnlli- 
iccll. [North. Eng.] 
shot-line (shot'lin), . In the life-saving scn/cr. 
a light cord attached to a ball which is fired 
from a gun or mortar so as to fall over a vessel 
in distress. By means of the cord a heavier rope can 
then be hauled from the shore to the vessel. In the United 
States service a cord of braided linen is used. 
shot-locker (shot'lok"er), n. A compartment 
for containing cannon-balls, especially on ship- 
board. See locker 1 . 
shot-pepper (shot'pep"er), n. See pepper. 
shot-plug (shot'plug), re. A tapered wooden 
plug formerly used on board a wooden man-of- 
war to stop up holes made by shot. It is often 
covered with fearnaught or some similar ma- 
terial to insure a closer fit. 
shot-pouch (shot'pouch), H. 1. A receptacle 
for the small shot used in hunting small game. 
Such pouches were formerly made of different material 
and of many different forms, but generally of leather, and 
fitted with a metal charger, or device for measuring a de- 
sired charge of shot. Like the powder-flask or powder- 
horn, the shot-pouch has almost disappeared with the 
nearly universal use of breech-loaders, which take fixed 
ammunition in the form of shot-cartridges. 
He searched under his red flannel shirt, beneath the 
heavy tangle of shot-pouche*, and powder-flask, and dan- 
gling chargers of antelope-horn, and the like. 
W. M. Baiter, New Timothy, p. 11. 
2. The ruddy duck, Erismatura rubida: so 
called in allusion to the quantity of shot often 
required to kill it. See cut under Erismatura. 
[Local, U. S.] 
Shot-proof (shot'prof), a. Proof against shot 
or missile weapons. 
Arete's favour makes any one shot-proof against thee, 
Cupid. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Kevels, v. 3. 
shot-prop (shot'prop), n. An arrangement for 
filling a shot-hole which is low in a ship's side 
and is likely to admit water. It is a plug braced 
from within by means of a timber or several timbers, 
which support it firmly in place. 
shot-rack (shot'rak), ii. Same as shot-garland, 1. 
shotrelt, [Appar. < shot 3 + -er-el, as in pick- 
erel.'] A pike in the first year. 
As though six mouths and the cat for a seventh be not 
sufficient to eat an harlotry shotrel, a pennyworth of 
cheese, and half a score sparlings. 
Oascoigne, Supposes, ii. 8. (Davies.) 
shot-sorter (shot's6r"ter), . A frame holding 
a series of rotary screens for sorting shot into 
various sizes. 
shot-star (shot'star), n. The alga Nostoc com- 
mune. 
shott (shot), re. [Ar.] In northern Africa, the 
bad of an old saline lake which has become 
dried up by excess of evaporation over pre- 
cipitation, and is now filled with deposits of 
salt and gypsum mingled with sand blown from 
the adjacent desert. The word is frequently used 
by writers in English and other languages on the physi- 
cal geography of northern Africa. 
shot-table (shot'ta/bl), .. A rotating table 
having an annular groove or channel in which 
a round shot is placed to cool after casting. 
It is designed to cause the metal to shrink 
equally in all directions. 
shotted (shot'ed),p. a. 1. Loaded with a ball 
as well as with the cartridge of powder: said 
of cannon. 
Once fairly kindled, he [Carlyle] is like a three-decker 
on fire, and his shotted guns go off, as the glow reaches 
them, alike dangerous to friend and foe. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 148. 
2. Having a shot attached ; weighted with shot, and top of the chest ; 
shoulder 
His heavy-Aottr<f hammock-shroud 
Uvops in his vast and wandering grave. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, vi. 
Shotted line. See line-. 
shotten (shot'n), //. . [< ME. echote*. < AS. 
xciitcn, pp. of sceotan, shoot, rush : see shoot, .] 
1. Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. 
Se'e the quotation under shoitlder-shotten. 2. 
Having spawned ; spent, as a fish. 
If manhood, good manhood, be not forgot upon the 
face of the earth, then am I a shotten herring. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 4. 142. 
Dismally shrunk, as Herrings shotten. Prior, The Mice. 
3. Sour; curdled, as milk. Halliicell. [Prov. 
Eng.] Shotten herring, (a) Seedef. 2. (b) See her- 
ring. 
shotten-souledt (shot'n-sold), a. Having lost 
or got rid of the soul ; soulless. [Rare.] 
Upbraid me with your benefits, you pilchers, 
You shotten-soul'd, slight fellows ! 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iii. 4. 
shottert (shot'er), n. [Also shoter; appar. < 
shoot, shot, + -e'l ; cf . shoufi.] A large fishing- 
boat. 
Boats "called shatters of diverse burthens between six 
and twenty-six tonn, going to sea from Aprill to June for 
macrell," are mentioned in a MS. dated 1580 relating to 
the Brighton fishermen. Hare*. 
shot-tower (shot'tou"er), 11. A high round tow- 
er in which small shot are made by dropping 
molten lead from the top. See shot 1 , ., 3. 
shotty (shot'i), . [< shaft + -yi.] Shot-like; 
resembling shot, or pellets of lead. 
Purpuric eruptions, . . . shotty to the feel. 
Quain, lied. Diet., p. 226. 
Weathered barley has a dull and often a dirty appear- 
ance, quite distinct from the bright shotty character of 
good samples. Ure, Diet., III. 185. 
shot-Window (shot'win // d6), n. [ME. nliotiryit- 
dowe, schotwyndoice; < shot, shooting, + tcindoir : 
prob. orig. applied to loopholes for archers. The 
explanation < shot, for shut, + window, is un- 
tenable on various grounds.] A special form 
of window projecting from the wall. See the 
quotation from Chambers. 
He . . . dressed hym up by a shot u-yndowe 
That was upon the carpenteris wal. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 172. 
Then she has ta'en a crystal wand, 
And she has stroken her troth thereon ; 
She has given it him out at the thot-vniutme, 
Wi' mony a sad sigh, and heavy groan. 
Clerk Saunders (Child's Ballads, II. 50). 
Go to the shot-window instantly, and see how many there 
are of them. Scott, Pirate, v. 
By shot-window is meant a certain species of aperture, 
generally circular, which used to be common in the stair- 
cases of old wooden houses in Scotland, and some speci- 
mens of which are yet to 
be seen in the Old Town 
of Edinburgh. It was cal- 
culated to save glass in 
those parts of the house 
where light was required, 
but where there was no 
necessity for the exclu- 
sion of the air. 
Chambers'e Scottish Sonyn, 
[III. 216, note. 
shought. An obsolete 
form of shock 3 , shoo 2 . 
should (shud). Pret- 
erit of shall 1 . 
shoulder (shol ' der), 
H. [Early mod. E. 
also sholder, Sc.shoit- 
ther, etc.; < ME. 
scholdre, shulder, 
schnlder, schuldere, 
shuldre (pi. scholdres, 
schylderez, ssoldren, 
scliuldreri), < AS. 
sculder, sculdor, scul- 
dur (pi. sculdru, scul- 
dra, collectively ge- 
sculdru, gesculdre) 
= OFries. skulder, 
scholder = D. sehou- 
der = MLG. schul- 
dere, sclntlder, LG. 
schulder, schuller = 
OHG. scultarra, scvl- 
tra, MHG. G. schulter 
= Dan. skulder = 
Sw. skuldra, shoul- 
der: root unknown.] 
, , , J 
1 . A part 01 the DOay 
at the Side and back 
of the bottom of the 
neck, and at the Side 
CL 
A 
_ 
Bones of the Left Shoulder and Up- 
per Extremity, from the front. 
A, acromion; C, coracoW; CA. 
of * scapula ; P, phalanges, proxi- 
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