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Definition of Shooing
1. shoo [v] - See also: shoo
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shooing
Literary usage of Shooing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by William Kemp, Alexander Dyce (1840)
"I hope this word shooing-horne doth not offend any of you, my worshipfull brethren,
for you, beeing the worshipfull headsmen of the towne, know well what ..."
2. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by William Kemp, Alexander Dyce (1840)
"I hope this word shooing-horne doth not offend any of you, my worshipfull brethren,
for you, beeing the worshipfull headsmen of the towne, know well what ..."
3. Kemps Nine Daies Wonder: Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich by William Kemp, Alexander Dyce (1840)
"... Vertue is the shooing-horne of ius- tice, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne
of doing well, that is, vertue is the shooing-horne of doing iustly, ..."
4. Biographical Sketches of Graduates of Harvard University, in Cambridge by John Langdon Sibley, Clifford Kenyon Shipton, Conrad Edick Wright, Edward William Hanson (1873)
""Paid to L* Cutler [of Charlestown], for shooing Mr. Mathers horse, mending sadle,
... "Paid ditto for a pr of fetters & shooing, money," 6s. ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"... is « good shooing horn to pull down a cup of wine. And caught a »lyp of bacon
... some shooing-horne to pull on your wine, as a rasher of the coles, ..."
6. The Early Records of the Town of Providence by Providence (R.I.). Record Commissioners (1899)
"... 1-4 by shooing a hors Vall Whitmans 1-4 by shooing 3 hors for Capt mosly 4-0
by sheepe that Capt mosly and the solders had by the ..."
7. The Ancient British Drama by Robert Dodsley (1810)
"Л shooing-horn ? . Yes, a shooing-horn ; marry, there was in the sauce. . Is this
all you would have? . This, and » bird of paradise, ..."
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