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 Shoot v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten.]
 1. 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.
 If you please
 To shoot an arrow that self way.   --Shak.
 2. 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.
    The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another.   --Boyle.
 3. 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.
    When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house.   --A. Tucker.
 4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
    An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle.   --Beau. & Fl.
    A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.   --Macaulay.
 5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
    They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.   --Ps. xxii. 7.
    Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.   --Dryden.
 6. Carp. To plane straight; to fit by planing.
    Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.   --Moxon.
 7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
    She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.   --Dryden.
 8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
 The tangled water courses slept,
 Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.   --Tennyson.
 To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] “Are you not glad to be shot of him?”
    --Sir W. Scott.