short-bread, V, [262], 22: “a thick cake of fine flour and butter, to which caraways and orange-peel are frequently added.” Jamieson. (A sweet short-bread is still well known in Scotland.)
shorten her, I, 478, 14: while away the time for herself; cf. Germ, kürzen, kurzweilen. See shortsome.
shortlye and anone, III, 23, 10: speedily.
shortsome, adj., II, 371, 2: enlivening, cheering.
shortsome, v., II, 370, 13, 14: divert (while away the time, opposed to langsum). See shorten.
shot, o wheat, IV, 459, 2: field, patch.
shot, V, [76], 9; [127], 3: reckoning. trust me one shott, V, [15], 22.
shot, II, 256, K 2==schawit, looked at(?).
shot, p. p., IV, 458, 3: shod.
shot-window, II, 122, 5; 141, 10; 177, 24; 230, 9; 322, 7; 357, 8; 368, 3; 375, 22; 376, 37, 40; III, 23, 22; 105, 20; IV, 135, 19; 151, 6; 153, E 6; 154, 11; 428, 3; 493, 12; V, [248], 8. II, 141, a princess looks out at a shot-window; II, 368, a lady draws her shot-window in her bower, harps and sings; II, 376, a knight jumps to a shot-window to escape; III, 105, Robin Hood glides out of a shot-window; IV, 135, a queen looks oer her shot-window; IV, 493, a knight goes in at a shot-window.—“Windows called shots, or shutters of timber with a few inches of glass above them.” Wodrow’s History, II, 286. But the shot-window of recent times is one turning on a hinge, above, and extensible at various angles by means of a perforated bar fitting into a peg or tooth. Donaldson, Jamieson’s Dictionary, 1882, notes that in the west of Scotland a bow-window is called an out-shot window. A bow-window would be more convenient in some of the instances cited.