shock1 (shok)

[ F. choquer ), shock, jolt; from the noun. Cf. shog1, jog, shuck1.] I. trans. 1. To strike against suddenly and violently; encounter with sudden collision or brunt; specifically, to encounter in battle: in this sense, archaic. Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Shak ., K. John, v. 7. 117. 2. To strike as with indignation, horror, or disgust; cause to recoil, as from something astounding, appalling, hateful, or horrible; offend extremely; stagger; stun. This cries, There is, and that, There is no God. What shocks one part will edify the rest. Pope, E ay on Man, iv. 141. A nature so prone to ideal contemplation as Spenser's would be profoundly shocked by seeing too closely the ignoble springs of contemporaneous policy. Lowell , Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 144. = Syn. 2. To appal, dismay, sicken, nauseate, scandalize, revolt, outrage, astound. See shock1, n. II. in trans. 1. To collide with violence; meet in sudden onset or encounter. Chariots on chariots roll; the clashing spokes Shock; while the madding steeds break short their yokes. Pope , Iliad, xvi. 445. "Have at thee then," said Kay; they shock'd , and Kay Fell shoulder-slipt. Tennyson, Gareth and Lynette. 21. To rush violently. He schodirde and schrenkys, and schontes [delays] bott lyttile, Bott schokkes in scharpely in his schene wedys. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4236. But at length, when they saw flying in the darke to be more suerty vnto them then fighting, they shocked away in diuers companies. J. Brende, tr. of Quintus Curtius, iv. 3. To butt, as rams. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] shock2 (shok), n. [ schokke , a shock, schocke = MLG. schok , a shock, cock, heap, = MHG. schoche , heap of grain, a heap, Sw.skock , a crowd, heap, herd; prob. the same as OS. scok = D. schok = MLG. schok = MHG. schoc , G. schock Sw. skock = Dan. skok , threescore, another particular use of the orig. sense, 'a heap'; perhaps orig. a heap 'shocked' or thrown together, ult. shock1 (cf. sheaf1 , ult. shook2 .] 1. In agri ., a group of sheaves of grain placed standing in a field with the stalk-ends down, and so arranged as to shed the rain as completely as po ible, in order to permit the grain to dry and ripen before housing. In England also called shook or stook . The sheaves being yet in shocks in the field. North , tr. of Plutarch, p. 85. He... burnt up both the shocks and also the standing Judges xv. 5. corn. 2. A similar group of stalks of Indian corn or maize, not made up in sheaves, but placed singly, and bound together at the top in a conical form. Such shocks are usually made by gathering a number of cut stalks around a center of standing corn. [U. S.]-3+. A unit of tale, sixty boxes or canes, by a statute of Charles II. = Syn. 1 and 2. Stack, etc. See sheafl. shock2 (shok), v. [ corn. Certainly there is no crop in the world which presents such a gorgeous view of the wealth of the soil as an Amer ican corn-field when the corn has been shocked and has left the yellow pumpkins exposed to view. New Princeton Rev., II. 184. II. in trans. To gather sheaves in piles or shocks. IMG:content-0900.png:[blocks in formation] these contractors and the resulting ambition of some of them for social prominence caused shoddy (especially as an adjective) to be applied to those who on account of lately to which their birth or breeding entitles them. Hence-3. A person or thing combining as- sumption of superior excellence with actual Wycherley, Gentleman Dancing-Master, ii. 2. The shock - dog has a collar that cost almost as much as mine. Steele , Tatler, No. 245. shocker1 (shok'er), n. [ Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] -2. That which shocks; specifically, a vulgarly exciting tale or description. Compare penny dreadful, under dreadful, n. [Colloq.] Working up the threadbare ragged commonplaces of popular metaphysics and mythology into philosophic shod- dy. The Academy , May 11, 1889, p. 325. A scramble of parvenus, with a horrible consciousne of shoddy running through politics, manners, art, liter a- ture, nay, religion itself. Lowell , Study Windows, p. 56. II. a. 1. Made of shoddy: as, shoddy cloth. Hence-2. Of a trashy or inferior character: as, shoddy literature.-3. Pretending to an ex- cellence not po e ed; pretentious; sham; counterfeit; ambitious for prominence or in- fluence not deserved by character or breeding, but aspired to on account of newly acquired wealth: as, a shoddy aristocracy. See I., 2. [Col- loq.]-Shoddy fever, the popular name of a kind of bronchitis caused by the irritating effect of floating par- ticles of dust upon the mucous membrane of the trachea and its ramifications. shoddy (shod'i), v . t.; pret. and pp. shoddied , ppr. shoddy ing . [ While woolen and even cotton goods can be shoddied , no use is made of the refuse of silk. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 33. shoddyism (shod'i-izm), n. [ shoddy , n., 2. The Ru ian merchant's love of ostentation is of a pe- culiar kind - something entirely different from English He never affects to be other than he really is. D. M. Wallace , Ru ia, p. 176. IMG:content-0901.png:[blocks in formation] shoddy-machine (shod'i-ma-shēn"), n. A form of rag-picker used for converting woolen rags, etc., into shoddy. shoddy-mill (shod'i-mil), n. A mill used for spinning yarn for shoddy from the refuse ma- terial prepared by the willower. shodelt (shod), n. [Also shoad ; schode , shed , of which shodel is a doub let. Cf. also shode2 and shoddy , also show3 .] 1. Separation; distinction. -2. A chasm or ravine. Hem bituen a gret schode, Of gravel and erthe al so. shode2 (shōd), n. [Also shoad ; prob. another use of shodel , lit. 'separation': see shodel .] In mining , a loose fragment of veinstone; a part of the outcrop of a vein which has been moved from its original position by gravity, marine or fluviatile currents, glacial action, or the like. [Cornwall, Eng.] The loads or veins of metal were by this action of the departing water made easy to be found out by the shoads , or trains of metal lick fragments borne off from them, and lying in trains from those veins towards the sea, in the same course that water falling thence would take. shode2 (shōd), v . i.; pret. and pp. shoded , ppr. shoding. [ shode2 , n.] To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following the shodes, or tracing them to the source from which they were derived. [Cornwall, Eng.] shode-pit (shōd'pit), n. A pit or trench formed in shoding, or tracing shodes to their native vein. shoder (shō'dėr), n. [ shode1 + -er1.] A gold- beaters' name for the package of skin in which the hammering is done at the second stage of the work. See cutch2 and mold4 , 11. E. H. shode-stone (shōd's ton), n . Same as shode2 . shoel (shö), n.; pl. shoes (shöz), archaic pl. shoon (shön). [Early mod. E. shoo , shooe (reduced to shoe , like doe , now do , for * dooe , doo ; the oe being not a diphthong, but orig. long o, pron. ö, followed by a silent e), shoo , scho , sho, that used for other parts of the cos- tume, and even of satin, cloth of gold, and other rich fab- rics for persons of rank. They were sometimes embroi- dered, and even set with precious stones. The fas- of very simple character, often a strap pa ing over IMG:content-0902.png:[graphic] Shoe, 9th century. (From Viollet-le-Duc's "Dict. du Mobilier français.") the instep, and secured with a button or a hook. Buckled shoes were worn in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. At the present time shoes are commonly of leather of some kind, but often of cloth. For wooden shoes , see sabot ; for water- proof shoes, see rubber and galosh. See also cuts under cracow , poulaine , sabbat on , sabot , and sandal . Two thongede scheon. Ancren Riwle , p, 362. His shoon of cordewane. Chaucer, Sir Thopas, 1. 21. Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou stand est is holy. Josh. v. 15. Her little foot... was still incased in its smartly buckled shoe. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, iv. 2. A plate or rim of metal, usually iron, nailed horse, mule, ox, or other beast IMG:content-0903.jpg:[subsumed][subsumed][ocr errors][subsumed][subsumed] of burden, to de- fend it from in- jury.-3. Some- thing bling a shoe in form, use, or po- sition. ( a ) A plate A, shoe for fore foot; B, shoe for hind foot: of iron or slip of IMG:content-0904.jpg:[ocr errors] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary shoe-fastener (shö ́fås nėr), n . 1. Any device for fastening a shoe.-2. A button-hook. And there is Sir Carnaby Jenks, of the Blues, All come to see a man die in his shoes! sceóian (also gescӯgian , gescỹ , shoes) D. schoeijen = OHG. scuahan, MHG. schuohen (cf. G. be- schuhen) = Icel. skūa , skōa Sw. Dan. sko , shoe; from the noun.] 1. To fit with a shoe broad and slightly convex face for pounding leather on the lapstone to con- dense the pores, and for driving sprigs, pegs, etc., and with a wide, thin, rounded peen used to pre out the creases incident to the crimping of the leather. Also called shoemakers ' hammer. shoe-horn (shöʻhôrn), n. Same as shoeing- shoeing (shö'ing), n. [Early mod. E. also shoo- ing; schoynge ; verbal n. of shoel , v.] 1. The act or proce of putting on shoes or fur- nishing with shoes. IMG:content-0906.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0907.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0908.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0909.png:[blocks in formation] His horse was silver shod before, With the beaten gold behind. Child Noryce (Child's Ballads, II. 40). What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane! - a clod- hopping me enger would never do at this juncture. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xx. ing + horn.] 1. An implement used in putting on a shoe, curved in two directions, in its width to fit the heel of the foot, and in its length to avoid contact with the ankle, used for keeping the stocking smooth and allowing the counter of the shoe to slip easily over it. Such imple- ments were formerly made of horn, but are now commonly of thin metal, ivory, bone, wood, or celluloid. Also shoe- horn . Sub . But will he send his andirons? Face . His jack too, And's iron shoeing-horn. B. Jonson, Alchemist, ii. 1. 2. Figuratively, anything by which a transac- IMG:content-0910.png:[blocks in formation] shoe-block (shö'blok), n. Naut ., a block with two sheaves, whose axes are at right angles to each other, used for the buntlines of the courses. shoe-bolt (shö'bolt), n . A bolt with a countersunk head, used for sleigh- runners. E. H. Knight. shoeboy (shö'boi), n. A boy who cleans shoes. Hence-(a) A dangler about young women, encouraged merely to draw on other admirers. Most of our fine young ladies readily fall in with the direction of the graver sort, to retain in their service as great a number as they can of supernumerary and in- significant fellows, which they use like whifflers, and com- monly call shoeing -horns. Add is on , Spectator, No. 536. (bt) An article of food acting as a whet, especially in- Shall serve as a shoeing - horn to draw on two pots of ale. Bp . Still , Gammer Gurton's Needle, i. 1. Haue some shooing horne to pul on your wine, as a rasher of the coles, or a redde herring. shoe-jack (shöjak), n. An adjustable holder for a last while a shoe is being fitted upon it. E. H. Knight . shoe-key (shöʻkē), n. In shoemaking , a hook used to withdraw the last from a boot or shoe. E. H. Knight. shoe-knife (shö'nif), n. A knife with a thin blade fixed by a tang in a wooden handle, used by shoemakers for cutting and paring leather. shoe-lace (shöʻlās), n . A shoe-string. shoe-latchet (shöʻlach"et), n. [Early mod. E. shoo - latchet ; shoe1 + latchet .] A thong, strap, or lace for holding a shoe on the foot; also, in Scrip ., a strap used to fasten a sandal to the foot. Compare shoe - tie . IMG:content-0911.png:[blocks in formation] shoe-rose (shöʻroz), n . See rosel , 3. shoes-and-stockings (shöz'and-stok'ingz), n. The bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus : le commonly applied to some other plants. shoe-shaped (shö'shāpt), a . Shaped like a shoe; boat-shaped; slipper-shaped; cymbiform. See Paramecium. shoe-shave (shö'shav), n. A tool, resembling a spokeshave, for trimming the soles of boots and shoes. shoe-stone (shö'ston), n. A cobblers' whet- stone. shoe-strap (shöʻstrap), n. A strap usually pa - ing over the instep and fastened with a buckle or button, to secure the shoe on the foot. shoe-stretcher (shö'strech"ėr), n . A last made with a movable piece which can be raised or lowered with a screw, to distend the leather of the shoe in any part. shoe-string (shö'string), n. A string used to draw the sides of a shoe together, so as to hold it firmly upon the foot. Nares . Master Forth light the tilter, and brave Master Shooty the great traveller. Shak., M. for M., iv. 3. 18. They will help you to shoe - ties and devices. shoe-valve (shö'valv), n . A valve in the foot of a pump-stock, or in the bottom of a reservoir. E. H. Knight. shoe-worker (shö'wèrkėr), n . A worker in a shoe-factory; one who has to do with the mak- ing of shoes in any capacity. And the boot in the myddil of the see was schoggid with Wyclif , Mat. xiv. 24. II. in trans. To shake; jog; hence, with off or on, to move off or move on; be gone. Shall we shog ? the king will be gone from Southampton. Shak., Hen. V., ii. 3. 47. Nay, you must quit my house; shog on. Mas singer, Parliament of Love, iv. 5. Laughter, pucker our cheekes, make shoulders shog With chucking lightne e! Marston , What you Will, v. 1. shog1 (shog), n. [ shog1 , v.] A jog; a shock. Another's diving bow he did adore, Which with a shog casts all the hair before. shone (shōn, sometimes shon). Preterit and past participle of shine1 . shongablet, n. See shoon gavel . shoot, n. An obsolete spelling of shoel . shoo2 (shö), interj . [Formerly also shooe , shue, shu, shee, shough, chou , It. scioia , Gr. σοῦ , σοῦ , shoo! a vocal- ized form of ' sh or ' , a sibilation used to attract attention. Not connected with G. scheuchen, scare off, etc. (see shy1 , shewel ).] Begone! off! away! used to scare away fowls and other ani- mals. Scioare, to cry shooe , shooe , as women do to their hens. Florio, ed. 1611. Shough, shough ! up to your coop, pea-hen. Fletcher and Rowley , Maid in the Mill, v. 1. shoo2 (shö), v . [ He gave her an ivory wand, and charged her, on her life, to tell him what she would do with it, and she sobbed out she would shoo her mother's hens to roost with it. The Century, XXXVII. 788. shood (shöd), höd), n. [Also shude ; prob. a dial. var. of shodel , orig. 'separation': see shodel , shode2 . Cf. also show3 .] 1. Chaff of oats, etc. [Scotch.] -2. The husks of rice and other refuse of rice- mills, largely used to adulterate linseed-cake. Simmonds.-3. Broken pieces of floating ice. Jamie son. [Scotch.] shogun (shō gön'), n. [Jap.(= Chin.tsiang kiun , handle (or lead) the army), sho (= Chin.tsiang ), take, hold, have charge of, or lead in fight, + gun (= Chin. kiun , kun ), army.] General: the title of the commander-in-chief or captain-gen- eral of the Japanese army during the continu- ance of the feudal system in that country. More fully called tai shogun ('great general'), or sei - i - tai -sho- gun , 'barbarian-subduing-great-general'-the earlier wars of the Japanese (when this form of the title was first used) having been waged against the 'barbarians' or aboriginal shook3 (shük), n. Same as shock2 , 1. and headings sufficient for one hogshead, bar- rel, or the like, prepared for use and bound up in a compact form for convenience of trans- port. Boards for boxes prepared or fitted for use and packed in the same way bear the same name. All Empty Barrels must have six hoops, and be deliv. ered in form, shooks or staves not being a good delivery. New York Produce Exchange Report , 1888-9, p. 280. shook2 (shük), v. t. [ shook2 , n.; a var. of shock2 .] To pack in shooks. shooll, n. and v. A dialectal (English and Scotch) variant of shovell . shool2 (shöl), v. i. [Origin obscure.] To saun- ter about; loiter idly; also, to beg. [Prov. Eng.] They went all hands to shooling and begging, and, be- cause I would not take a spell at the same duty, refused to give me the least a istance. Smollett , Roderick Random, xli. ( Davies .) shooldarry (shöl-dar'i), n.; pl. shooldarries (-iz). [Also shoaldarree ; chholdāri .] In India, a small tent with a steep roof and low sides. shoon (shön), n. An archaic plural of shoel . IMG:content-0912.png:[blocks in formation] Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought, To teach the young Idea how to shoot . Thomson, Spring, 1. 1151. 5. To increase rapidly in growth; grow quickly taller or larger: often with up . Pipen he coude, and fi he and nettes beete, And turne coppes, and wel wrastle and sheete. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 8. Who's there? speak quickly, or I shoot . Shak ., K. John, v. 6. 2. 9. Specifically, to follow or practise the sport of killing birds or other game, large or small, with a gun; hunt. - Close-shooting firearm. See Euerych sowtere that maketh shon of newe rothes le- ther shal bote, at that feste of Estre, twey pans, in name of shongable . English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 359. shoopt. A Middle English preterit of shape . shoot (shot), v .; pret. and pp. shot , ppr. shoot- ing (the participle shotten is obsolete). [ eten (pret. schot , shet , schet , et , shette , schette , IMG:content-0913.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0914.png:[ocr errors] (6) To hunt upon: as, to shoot over a moor. To shoot Australia. over the pitcher, to brag about one's shooting. [Slang, Percevelle sayde hafe it he wolde, And schott owtt alle the golde; Righte there appone the faire molde Now is he gone; we had no other means To shoot him hence but this. IMG:content-0915.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To drive, cast, or throw, as a shuttle in weaving. An honest weaver, and as good a workman as e'er shot shuttle. Beau. and Fl . , Coxcomb, v. 1. Other nations in weaving shoot the woof above, the Scott , L. of the L., iv. 18. Egyptians beneath. A. Barlow , Weaving, p. 57. There shot no glance from Ellen's eye To give her steadfast speech the lie. 4. To push or thrust sharply in any direction; dart forth; protrude. All they that see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head. Ps. xxii. 7. Where Hibernia shoots Her wondrous causeway far into the main. Cowper , To the Immortal Memory of the Halibut. IMG:content-0916.png:[blocks in formation] Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 25. should make examples Which, like a warning-piece, must be shot off , To fright the rest from crimes. With furious haste, and shoots the Stygian sound To rouse Alecto. Dryden, Eneid, vii. 450. They (explosives] are used in the petroleum industry to shoot the wells, so as to remove the paraffine which pre- vents the flow of oil. Scribner's Mag . , III. 576. 11. To set or place, as a net; run out into position, as a seine from the boat; pay out; lay out: as, the lines were shot acro the tide. [Drift-nets].. are cast out or shot . Encyc. Brit ., IX. 251. 12. To hunt over; kill game in or on. loq.] Dark shadows wove on their aërial looms, Shot through with golden thread. Her Majesty... wore a pink satin robe, shot with sil- First Year of a Silken Reign , p. 60. As soon as the great black velvet pall outside my win- dow was shot with gray, I got up. Dickens, Great Expectations, ii. I'll be shot, a mild euphemistic imprecation. [Vulgar.] I'll be shot if it ain't very curious; how well I knew that Dickens , Bleak House, vii. picture! To be shot of, to get quit of; be released from. See to be shut of , under shut . [Colloq.] Scott . And Philip the ferse King foule was maimed; A schaft with a scharp hed shet oute his yie. To shoot spawn, to spawn, as certain fish. For example, the male and female shad, in spawning, swim about in circles, probably following the eddies of the stream, sometimes with the dorsal fins out of the water; when suddenly the whole shoal, as if seized by a common im- pulse, dart forward and discharge clouds of milt and spawn into the water. To shoot the compa ( naut .), to go wide of the mark. To shoot the pit. See pit 1.- To shoot the sun, to take the sun's altitude. [Nautical slang.] To shoot to spoil, to dump (excavated mate- rial) on an inclined surface in such a manner that it will shoot or roll down on the declivity. borrow a railway term) down a hill-side, or to quarry 50,000 cubic yards of stone, remove it, probably a mile at least, to the place where the temple is to be built, and then to raise and set it. shoot (shöt), n. [ shote , schote , a shooting, throwing, shoot; from the verb. Cf. shot1 , which is the older form of the noun from this 2. That can or may be shot over. verb. In senses 8-13 shoot is in part confused with chute (also spelled shute ) of like mean- ing and pronunciation, but of diff. origin: see chute.] 1. The act of shooting; the discharge, as of a mi ile weapon; a shot. End thy ill aim before thy shoot be ended. Shak., Lucreсе, 1. 579. When a man shooteth, the might of his shoot lieth on the foremost finger and on the ringman. Ascham , Toxophilus (ed. 1864), p. 101. He straight com maunded the gunner of the bulwarke 2. A match at shooting; also, a shooting-party. And therefore this marcke that we must shoot at, set vp wel in our sight, we shal now meat for ye shoot , and consider how neare toward or how farre of your arrowes are from the prick. At the great shoots which took place periodically on his estate he was wont to be present with a walking-stick in his hand. W. E. Norris, Major and Minor, xxv. 3. A young branch which shoots out from the main stock; hence, an annual growth, as the annual layer of growth on the shell of an oyster. The bourder is about aba het with leuys, With shotes of shire wode shene to beholde. Overflowing blooms, and earliest shoots Of orient green, giving safe pledge of fruits. Tennyson, Ode to Memory. Thou want'st a rough pash [head] and the shoots that I have To be full like me. Shak ., W. T., i. 2. 128. 51. Range; reach; shooting distance; shot. Compare ear - shot , and shot1 , n., 5. Hence, and take the wings Of thy black infamy, to carry thee Beyond the shoot of looks, or sound of curses. Beau , and Fl ., Honest Man's Fortune, iv. 2. Every night vpon the foure quarters of his house are foure Sentinels, each from other a slight shoot . Capt . John Smith , Works, I. 142. shoot-anchort, n. [Early mod. E. shoteancre; shoot + anchor1 .] An obsolete form of sheet- anchor. This wise reason is their shoteancre and all their hold. Tyndale, Works, p. 264. Same as shooting- shoot-board (shötʼbörd), n. board. Encyc. Dict . shooted (shö'ted), a. [ shoot + -ed2.] Planed or pared, as with a chisel: said of boards fitted together. Also shot. The etares donward al uor nozt vaste slowe to grounde, So that Harald thoru the neye [eye] y otte was dethe's Rob. of Gloucester , 1. 159. See then the quiver broken and decay'd, In which are kept our arrows! Rusting there,... They shame their shooters with a random flight. The shetere ew [yew], the asp for shaftes pleyne. Chaucer , Parliament of Fowls, 1. 180. The shooter ewe [yew], the broad-leav'd sycamore. Fairfax .] 2. An implement for shooting; a pistol or gun: usually compounded with some descriptive word, forming a compound term denoting the kind of weapon: as, a pea - shooter ; a six - shooter (a revolver).-3. A shooting-star. [Rare.] Methought a star did shoot into my lap;... But I have also stars, and shooters too. 6. The thrust of an arch.-7. One movement of the shuttle between the threads of the warp, toward the right or left; also, the thread put into nto its place in a web by this movement; hence, a thread or strand of the weft of any textile. 8. In mining: (a) An accumulation or ma of ore in a vein, of considerable extent and having some regularity of form; a chimney. See chim- ney, 4 (b). In some mines the shoots or chimneys of ore have, although narrow, a remarkable persistency in depth and parallelism with each other. (b) Any pa age- way or excavation in a mine down which ore, coal, or whatever is mined is shot or allowed to fall by gravity: a term used chiefly in coal- mines, and sometimes spelled chute and shute. It is synonymous with mill and pa in metal- mines.-9. A sloping trough, or a long narrow box vertically arranged, for conveying articles (0) Especially, at the present day, the killing of game with to a receptacle below, or for discharging ballast, ashes, etc., overboard from a ship; also, an in- clined waterway for floating logs: as, a shoot for grain, for coal, for mail-matter, for soiled clothes, etc.; also, a pa ageway on the side of a steep hill down which wood, coal, etc., are thrown or slid.-10. A place for shooting rub- bish into. Two of the principal shoots by the river side were at Bell-wharf, Shad well, and off Wapping-street. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, II. 287. 11. A river-fall or rapid, especially one over which timber is floated or through which boats A single shoot carried a considerable stream over the face of a black rock, which contrasted strongly in colour with the white foam of the cascade. Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, 1. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 170. Our king hath provided a shooting match. Robin Hoods Progre to Nottingham (Child's Ballads, [V. 291). Some love a concert, or a race: And others shooting , and the chase. corns. shooting I fancy we shall have some rain, by the shooting of my Goldsmith, Vicar, xv. 6. In carp ., the operation of planing the edge of a board straight. =Syn. 1 (b). Hunting , etc. See gunning.