What is "shotten"

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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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.

   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.

Shotten \Shot"ten\, n. [Properly p. p. of shoot; AS. scoten, sceoten, p. p. of sce['o]tan.]

1. Having ejected the spawn; as, a shotten herring.
   --Shak.

2. Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone.

"having shot its spawn," and accordingly of inferior value, mid-15c., past participle adjective from shoot (v.). Originally of fish; applied to persons, with sense of "exhausted by sickness," from 1590s.

1. 1 Having ejected the spawn. 2 Shot out of its socket; dislocated, as a bone. v

2. (context archaic English) (past participle of shoot English)