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Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty. I had them a dead bargain. Goldsmith.

ympic Games, a composite contest consisting of a 100-meter run, a broad jump, putting the shot, a running high-jump, a 400-meter run, throwing the discus, a 100-meter hurdle race, pole vaulting, throwing the javelin, and a 1500-meter run.

fowl, or the likeness of one, used by sportsmen to entice other fowl into a net or within shot.

The deviation of a shot or ball from its true course.

Leaping or skipping about. [Obs.] I shot at it [a bird], but it was so desultory that I missed my aim. Gilbert White.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. Shak.

A small piece of artillery. [Obs.] Two or three shots, made at them by a couple of drakes, made them stagger. Clarendon.

earring, a glass pendant on a chandelier, a sugarplum (sometimes medicated), or a kind of shot or slug.

Earshot. Marston.

ields and formerly attributed them to fairies; -- called also elf bolt, elf dart, and elf shot. -- Elf child, a child supposed to be left by elves, in room of one they had stolen. See Changeling. -- Elf fire, the ignis fatuus. Brewer. -- Elf owl (Zoöl.), a small owl (Micrathene Whitneyi) of Southern California and A…

arms embattled full strong. Spenser. Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. Emerson.

To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops. Campbell.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

x in which a long rope is faked; used in the life-saving service for a line attached to a shot.

Very hot; burning; boiling. The mounted sun Shot down direct his fervid rays. Milton.

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

a wave. See Flote, n. Float board, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; -- a vane. -- Float case (Naut.), a caisson used for lifting a ship. -- Float copper or gold (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, and thus li…

municipal, or sacerdotal. [Obs.] The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller.

wl. Blackstone. Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

To injure; to harass; to annoy; as, the troops were galled by the shot of the enemy. In our wars against the French of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison.