Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

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Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east..
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..
Shoot :: 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..
Outgrowth :: Outgrowth (n.) That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence..
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..
Turioniferous :: Turioniferous (a.) Producing shoots, as asparagus..
Spire :: Spire (v. i.) To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly..
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head..
Flight :: Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement..
Imp :: Imp (n.) A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft.
Spurred :: Spurred (a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. t.) To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth..
Streamer :: Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis..
Jager :: Jager (n.) A sharpshooter. See Yager.
Dart :: Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket..
Jet :: Jet (v. i.) To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
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