Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly..

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Gleam :: Gleam (n.) A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse.
Set :: Set (v. i.) To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east..
Person :: Person (n.) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa Anthozoa, etc.; also, an individual, in the narrowest sense, among the higher animals..
Woodcraft :: Woodcraft (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain..
Browse :: Browse (v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer..
Spittle :: Spitter (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket..
Fusillade :: Fusillade (v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
Ray :: Ray (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles..
Upshoot :: Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.
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..
Asparaginous :: Asparaginous (a.) Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables..
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)..
Sallow :: Sallow (n.) A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc..
Approaching :: Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach..
Dribber :: Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.
Straggler :: Straggler (n.) Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) A firearm; as, a five-shooter..
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