Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit..

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Projection :: Projection (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly..
Browse :: Browse (v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer..
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..
Twig :: Twig (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size..
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east..
Jager :: Jager (n.) A sharpshooter. See Yager.
Gleam :: Gleam (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Glare :: Glare (v. t.) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light..
Branch :: Branch (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..
Poke :: Poke (n.) A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P. decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget, pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emetic and purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shoots are sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berries are said to be used in Europe to color wine..
Pistol :: Pistol (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.
Leaf :: Leaf (v. i.) To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May..
Surcloyed :: Surcle (n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
Perseid :: Perseid (n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862..
Spear :: Spear (v. i.) To shoot into a long stem, as some plants. See Spire..
Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..
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..
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