Shoot"ing, a. Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Shooting board (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the
edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board
held true. -- Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in the
shooting season. Prof. Wilson. -- Shooting gallery, a range, usually
covered, with targets for practice with firearms. -- Shooting iron, a
firearm. [Slang, U.S.] -- Shooting star. (a) (Astron.) A starlike,
luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some
portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes,
for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star.
Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in
its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with
planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain
periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for
a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in
the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star
showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in
orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids.
(b) (Bot.) The American cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under
Cowslip. -- Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron,
used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Hansard.
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Shoot"y (?), a. Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly. [Prev.
Eng.] Grose.
Shop (?), obs. imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.
Shop, n. [OE. shoppe, schoppe, AS. sceoppa a treasury, a storehouse,
stall, booth; akin to scypen a shed, LG. schup a shed, G. schoppen,
schuppen, a shed, a coachhouse, OHG. scopf.] 1. A building or an
apartment in which goods, wares, drugs, etc., are sold by retail.
From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The
polished counter.
Cowper.
2. A building in which mechanics or artisans work; as, a shoe shop; a
car shop.
A tailor called me in his shop.
Shak.
Shop is often used adjectively or in composition; as, shop rent, or
shop-rent; shop thief, or shop-thief; shop window, or shop-window, etc.
To smell of the shop, to indicate too distinctively one's occupation or
profession. -- To talk shop, to make one's business the topic of social
conversation; also, to use the phrases peculiar to one's employment.
[Colloq.]
Syn. -- Store; warehouse. See Store.
Shop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shopped (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Shopping.] To
visit shops for the purpose of purchasing goods.
He was engaged with his mother and some ladies to go shopping.
Byron.
Shop"board` (?), n. A bench or board on which work is performed; a
workbench. South.
Shop"book` (?), n. A book in which a tradesman keeps his accounts.
Locke.
Shop"boy` (?), n. A boy employed in a shop.
Sho"pen (?), obs. p. p. of Shape. Chaucer.
Shop"girl` (?), n. A girl employed in a shop.
Shop"keep`er (?), n. A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail;
-- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale. Addison.
Shop"lift`er (?), n. [Shop + lift. See Lift to steal.] One who steals
anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who,
under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal.
Shop"lift`ing, n. Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything
from a shop.
Shop"like`, a. Suiting a shop; vulgar. B. Jonson.
Shop"maid` (?), n. A shopgirl.
Shop"man (?), n.; pl. Shopmen (&?;). 1. A shopkeeper; a retailer.
Dryden.