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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Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A young branch or growth.
Meteoroscope :: Meteoroscope (n.) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..
Target :: Target (n.) A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile..
Rove :: Rove (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)..
Crossbowman :: Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Asparaginous :: Asparaginous (a.) Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables..
Plashoot :: Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed..
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..
Grouse :: Grouse (v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.
Lyrid :: Lyrid (n.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.
Disbud :: Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) A small branch or offshoot proceeding from a main stock or channel; as, the ramifications of an artery, vein, or nerve..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Outshoot :: Outshoot (v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond.
Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
Forereach :: Forereach (v. i.) To shoot ahead, especially when going in stays..
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