shoo

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shot p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See Shotten. ] [ OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i., sceótan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie&unr_;en, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj&unr_;ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. √159. Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

If you please
To shoot an arrow that self way. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud. [ 1913 Webster ]

They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. Ps. xxii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. Moxon. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. [ 1913 Webster ]

She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tangled water courses slept,
Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [ Colloq. ] “Are you not glad to be shot of him?” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]