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To be shot of

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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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.

Usage examples of "to be shot of".

Being slow and stupid and intent on enjoyment rather than thought, he too had got no workable plan to be shot of me.

Only two men responded to Hal's appeal, and Welles looked relieved to be shot of them.

He was sick even of simple dissimulation, dissimulation at one level, and he longed to be shot of it, to be able to speak openly to any man or woman he happened to like: or to dislike, for that matter.

But Harry had scarcely put the receiver down before he was pulling the wad out of his back pocket, wanting to be shot of every dirty dollar.