Definition of shoot

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Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

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Ray :: Ray (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles..
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..
Undershoot :: Undershoot (v. t.) To shoot short of (a mark).
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. t.) To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory..
At :: At (prep.) Relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one..
Scion :: Scion (n.) A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains..
Maurist :: Maurist (n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature..
Branching :: Branching (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
Marksman :: Marksman (n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
Oelet :: Oelet (n.) An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet..
Branch :: Branch (v. i.) To shoot or spread in branches; to separate into branches; to ramify.
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Sport :: Sport (v. i.) To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6..
Shawfowl :: Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. t.) To shoot over or beyond.
Fork :: Fork (v. i.) To shoot into blades, as corn..
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