The archers have . . . shot at him. --Gen. xlix.
23.
2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
3. To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to
be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if
propelled; as, a shooting star.
There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.
4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing
sensation; as, shooting pains.
Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison.
5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.
--Herbert.
6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon.
But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful
plain. --Dryden.
7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser.
Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To
teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson.
8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot
into crystals. --Bacon.
9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land
shoots into a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt,
straggling houses. --Dickens.
10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing
vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
{To shoot ahead}, to pass or move quickly forward; to
outstrip others.
{To take a shoot}, to pass through a shoot instead of the
main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
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.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
--Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
--Drayton.
Superfluous branches and shoots of this second
spring. --Evelyn.
4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction
as the lode. --Knight.
5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the
shuttle; a pick.
6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.