Definition of shoot

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Shoot (n.) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.

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Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..
Arrowwood :: Arrowwood (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots..
Spirit :: Spiring (a.) Shooting up in a spire or spires.
Vimineous :: Vimineous (a.) Producing long, slender twigs or shoots..
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..
Trinodal :: Trinodal (a.) Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem..
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot..
Surd :: Surculose (a.) Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers..
Fang :: Fang (v. t.) Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken.
Obedience :: Obedience (n.) A cell (or offshoot of a larger monastery) governed by a prior.
Shuttle :: Shuttle (n.) An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
Perseid :: Perseid (n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862..
Shoot :: Shoot (n.) A shoat; a young hog.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee..
Marksman :: Marksman (n.) One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
Woodcraft :: Woodcraft (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods..
Dart :: Dart (v. i.) To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along; as, the deer darted from the thicket..
Disbud :: Disbud (v.) To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) A shooting star.
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