Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well..

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Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head..
Glance :: Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye..
Jet :: Jet (v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
Branch :: Branch (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..
Slip :: Slip (n.) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..
Woodcraft :: Woodcraft (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods..
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
Spear :: Spear (n.) A shoot, as of grass; a spire..
Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter..
Germinate :: Germinate (v. i.) To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ..
Decoy :: Decoy (n.) A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
Twig :: Twig (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Arrowwood :: Arrowwood (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots..
Gallnut :: Gallnut (n.) A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall..
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