Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object..

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Oelet :: Oelet (n.) An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet..
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Priory :: Priory (n.) A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; -- sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2..
Crossbowman :: Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Germinate :: Germinate (v. i.) To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ..
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head..
Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun..
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
Withe-rod :: Withe-rod (n.) A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
Shawfowl :: Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
Outgrowth :: Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence..
Pistol :: Pistol (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.
Chit :: Chit (v. i.) To shoot out; to sprout.
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