Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object..

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Shoot :: Shoot (n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle..
Offset :: Offset (n.) A short prostrate shoot, which takes root and produces a tuft of leaves, etc. See Illust. of Houseleek..
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot out (flashes of light, etc.)..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Sprout :: Sprout (v. i.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch..
Ray :: Ray (n.) To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object..
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.
Tiller :: Tiller (n.) A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker..
Crossbowman :: Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Bird :: Bird (v. i.) To catch or shoot birds.
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement..
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. i.) To fly beyond the mark.
Plashoot :: Plashoot (n.) A hedge or fence formed of branches of trees interlaced, or plashed..
Hylophagous :: Hylophagous (a.) Eating green shoots, as certain insects do..
Rattoon :: Rattoon (n.) One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane..
Shooting :: Shooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoo.
Fulmine :: Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
Grouse :: Grouse (v. i.) To seek or shoot grouse.
Drib :: Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.
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