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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Bolt :: Bolt (v. t.) To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..
Branchless :: Branchless (a.) Destitute of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.
Straggle :: Straggle (v. t.) To escape or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth..
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head..
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..
Shawfowl :: Shawfowl (n.) The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at.
Upspear :: Upspear (v. i.) To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass..
Leonid :: Leonid (n.) One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; -- so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.
Spittle :: Spitter (n.) A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket..
Sprout :: Sprout (v. t.) To shoot into ramifications.
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot..
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..
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..
Undershoot :: Undershoot (v. t.) To shoot short of (a mark).
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Twig :: Twig (n.) A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size..
Forky :: Forky (a.) Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
Talon :: Talon (n.) The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt.
Wing :: Wing (n.) A side shoot of a tree or plant; a branch growing up by the side of another.
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