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Archery :: Archery (n.) The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows..

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.

Twinge :: Twinge (v. i.) To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges..

Meteoroscope :: Meteoroscope (n.) An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star..

Lyrid :: Lyrid (n.) One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

Sagittarius :: Sagittarius (n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow..

Radiant :: Radiant (n.) The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate..

Flight :: Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..

Salient :: Salient (v. i.) Shooting out or up; springing; projecting.

Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star..

Woodcraft :: Woodcraft (n.) Skill and practice in anything pertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods..

Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.

Machicolation :: Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle..

Shot :: Shot (n.) The act of shooting; discharge of a firearm or other weapon which throws a missile.

Spirit :: Spiring (a.) Shooting up in a spire or spires.

Bolis :: Bolis (n.) A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes..

Overshooting :: Overshooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshoo.

Branching :: Branching (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.

Radiation :: Radiation (n.) The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat..

Streamer :: Streamer (n.) A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis..

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