The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Shoot \Shoot\, 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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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.,
   sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan,
   Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump.
   [root]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.
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            If you please
            To shoot an arrow that self way.      --Shak.
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   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.
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            The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
            another.                              --Boyle.
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   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.
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            When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
            dove house.                           --A. Tucker.
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   4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
      motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
      emit.
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            An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
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            A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
            corpses by scores.                    --Macaulay.
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   5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
      often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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            They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps.
                                                  xxii. 7.
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            Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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            Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
            else pared with a paring chisel.      --Moxon.
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   7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
      rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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            She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.   --Dryden.
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   8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
      color in spots or patches.
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            The tangled water courses slept,
            Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
      [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him?" --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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