— Short"sight`ed*ly, adv. — Short"sight`ed*ness, n.
Cunning is a kind of shortsightedness.
Addison. Short-spoken
(Short"-spo`ken) a. Speaking in a quick or short manner; hence, gruff; curt. [Colloq.]
Shortstop
(Short"stop`) n. (Baseball) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third
bases.
Short-waisted
(Short"-waist`ed) a. Having a short waist.
Short-winded
(Short"-wind`ed) a. Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration,
as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
Shortwing
(Short"wing`) n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small wrenlike Asiatic birds having
short wings and a short tail. They belong to Brachypterix, Callene, and allied genera.
Short-wited
(Short"-wit`ed) a. Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
Shory
(Shor"y) a. Lying near the shore. [Obs.]
Shoshones
(Sho*sho"nes) n. pl.; sing. Shoshone (Ethnol.) A linguistic family or stock of North American
Indians, comprising many tribes, which extends from Montana and Idaho into Mexico. In a restricted
sense the name is applied especially to the Snakes, the most northern of the tribes.
Shot
(Shot) imp. & p. p. of Shoot.
Shot
(Shot), a. Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of
being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8.
Shot
(Shot), n. [AS. scot, sceot, fr. sceótan to shoot; akin to D. sschot, Icel. skot. &radic159. See
Scot a share, Shoot, v. t., and cf. Shot a shooting.] A share or proportion; a reckoning; a scot.
Here no shots are where all shares be.
Chapman.
A man is never . . . welcome to a place till some certain shot be paid and the hostess say "Welcome."
Shak. Shot
(Shot), n.; pl. Shotor Shots [OE. shot, schot, AS. gesceot a missile; akin to D. schot a shot,
shoot, G. schuss, geschoss a missile, Icel. skot a throwing, a javelin, and E. shoot, v.t. &radic159.
See Shoot, and cf. Shot a share.]
1. The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.
He caused twenty shot of his greatest cannon to be made at the king's army.
Clarendon. 2. A missile weapon, particularly a ball or bullet; specifically, whatever is discharged as a projectile from
firearms or cannon by the force of an explosive.
Shot used in war is of various kinds, classified according to the material of which it is composed, into
lead, wrought-iron, and cast-iron; according to form, into spherical and oblong; according to structure
and modes of operation, into solid, hollow, and case. See Bar shot, Chain shot, etc., under Bar,
Chain, etc.
3. Small globular masses of lead, of various sizes, — used chiefly for killing game; as, bird shot; buckshot.
