Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains..

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Offshoot :: Offshoot (n.) That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel, family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Fowl :: Fowl (v. i.) To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland..
Outrunner :: Outrunner (n.) An offshoot; a branch.
Bird :: Bird (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
Turioniferous :: Turioniferous (a.) Producing shoots, as asparagus..
Star-spangled :: Starshoot (n.) See Nostoc.
Surcloyed :: Surcle (n.) A little shoot; a twig; a sucker.
Spur :: Spur (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles..
Shot :: Shot (n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) That which shoots.
Chute :: Chute (n.) See Shoot.
Tiller :: Tiller (v. i.) To put forth new shoots from the root, or round the bottom of the original stalk; as, wheat or rye tillers; some spread plants by tillering..
Streamer :: Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly..
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..
Sharpshooting :: Sharpshooting (n.) A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument..
Stabling :: Stable stand () The position of a man who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer..
Sucker :: Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize..
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