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Samples taken for assay from a molten metallic mass pouring a portion into water, to granulate it.

A person tolerated only because he pays the shot, or reckoning, for the rest of the company, otherwise a mere clog on them. [Old Slang] Thou common shot-clog, gull of all companies. Chapman.

Not to be injured by shot; shot-proof. [Obs.] Feltham.

Impenetrable by shot.

A fish resembling the trout. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Garew.

A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especially designed for firing small shot at short range, and killing small game.

The refuse of cattle taken from a drove. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Loaded with shot.

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

Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.

Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. [R.] Cowley.

Commonly Snap shot.

An instrument for measuring or comparing the intensites of the colors of the spectrum.

The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of two spectra, wave length by wave length; the use of the spectrophotometer. --Spec`tro*pho`to*met"ric (#), a.

In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact.

A subordinate, or inferior, division into parts; a subdivision. [R.] Many subdichatomies of petty schisms. Milton.

A salt of sulphotungstic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, hypothetical sulphacid of tungsten (called also sulphowolframic acid), analogous to sulphuric acid, and known in its salts.

A common table for guests at a hotel; an ordinary.

A telelectric apparatus for producing images of visible objects at a distance.