Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides..

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Upshoot :: Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.
Shooting :: Shooting (a.) Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
Pistol :: Pistol (v. t.) To shoot with a pistol.
Gunning :: Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Fulmine :: Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
Spear :: Spear (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
Vimineous :: Vimineous (a.) Producing long, slender twigs or shoots..
Radiant :: Radiant (n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate..
Meteoroscope :: Meteoroscope (n.) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star..
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
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..
Shot :: Shot (a.) Woven in such a way as to produce an effect of variegation, of changeable tints, or of being figured; as, shot silks. See Shoot, v. t., 8..
Gunreach :: Gunreach (n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Yew :: Yew (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew..
Withe-rod :: Withe-rod (n.) A North American shrub (Viburnum nudum) whose tough osierlike shoots are sometimes used for binding sheaves.
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
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