Definition of shoot

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Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle..

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Glance :: Glance (v. t.) To shoot or dart suddenly or obliquely; to cast for a moment; as, to glance the eye..
Fusillade :: Fusillade (v. t.) To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.
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..
Clout :: Clout (n.) The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head.
Browse :: Browse (v. i.) To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer..
Flight :: Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain..
Scion :: Scion (n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Hylophagous :: Hylophagous (a.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects do..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement..
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..
Stool :: Stool (v. i.) To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers..
Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Stanhope :: Stang (v. i.) To shoot with pain.
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..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
Yew :: Yew (n.) A bow for shooting, made of the yew..
Stick :: Stick (v. t.) A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber..
Twig :: Twig (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size..
Dart :: Dart (v. t.) To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams..
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