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pl. of Shoe. [Archaic] Chaucer. They shook the snow from hats and shoon. Emerson.

imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.

stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also chute, and shute.] [U. S.] To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]

One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner.

The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. [Prev. Eng.] Grose.

r duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel.

A pistol or other firearm which can be fired six times without reloading especially, a six-chambered revolver. [Colloq. U.S.]

The rank or state of a squire; squireship. Swift.

The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring. [Obs.]

See Nostoc.

The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.

The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.

Thanehood. E. A. Freeman.

Of or pertaining to a group of carnivores, including the wovels and the dogs.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.

Words imitative of the notes of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.

Ground ivy; alehoof.

A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwind occurring in the Chinese seas.