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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Gunning :: Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Range :: Range (v.) A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced..
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..
Turioniferous :: Turioniferous (a.) Producing shoots, as asparagus..
Dribber :: Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.
Bolis :: Bolis (n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes..
Project :: Project (v. t.) To throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
Turio :: Turio (n.) A shoot or sprout from the ground.
Projection :: Projection (n.) The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Sucker :: Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize..
Trinodal :: Trinodal (a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem..
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..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
Surd :: Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers..
Star-spangled :: Starshoot (n.) See Nostoc.
Disbud :: Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree..
Dartle :: Dartle (v. t. & i.) To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar..
Jet :: Jet (v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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..
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