SPage 239
- English Word Shot Definition A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot.
- English Word Shot Definition To load with shot, as a gun.
- English Word Shot-clog Definition A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them.
- English Word Shot-free Definition Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof.
- English Word Shot-free Definition Free from charge or expense; hence, unpunished; scot-free.
- English Word Shot-proof Definition Impenetrable by shot.
- English Word Shote Definition A fish resembling the trout.
- English Word Shote Definition A young hog; a shoat.
- English Word Shotgun Definition A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.
- English Word Shots Definition of Shot
- English Word Shots Definition The refuse of cattle taken from a drove.
- English Word Shotted Definition of Shot
- English Word Shotted Definition Loaded with shot.
- English Word Shotted Definition Having a shot attached; as, a shotten suture.
- English Word Shotten Definition Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
- English Word Shotten Definition Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.
- English Word Shotten Definition of Shoot
- English Word Shotting Definition of Shot
- English Word Shough Definition A shockdog.
- English Word Shough Definition See Shoo.
- English Word Should Definition Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation (see Shall); e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go.
- English Word Should Definition of Shall
- English Word Shoulder Definition The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
- English Word Shoulder Definition The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
- English Word Shoulder Definition Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
- English Word Shoulder Definition That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
- English Word Shoulder Definition The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
- English Word Shoulder Definition The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.
- English Word Shoulder Definition An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
- English Word Shoulder Definition To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.