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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Shot :: Shot (n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Vimen :: Vimen (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement..
Surd :: Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers..
Bird :: Bird (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
Eradiate :: Eradiate (v. i.) To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate..
Hylophagous :: Hylophagous (a.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects do..
Miss :: Miss (v. t.) To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said..
Unsighted :: Unsighted (a.) Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon..
Gyropigeon :: Gyropigeon (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches..
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object..
Moravian :: Moravian (n.) One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society, under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony. Called also Herrnhuter..
Prune :: Prune (v. t.) To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay..
Branch :: Branch (n.) A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant..
Drib :: Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
Project :: Project (v. i.) To shoot forward; to extend beyond something else; to be prominent; to jut; as, the cornice projects; branches project from the tree..
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