Definition of shoot

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Shoot (v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory..

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Sagittarius :: Sagittarius (n.) A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow..
Glance :: Glance (v. i.) To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash.
Fulmine :: Fulmine (v. t.) To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence.
Shooty :: Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
Innovation :: Innovation (n.) A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses..
Shete :: Shete (v. t. & i.) To shoot.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains..
Sucker :: Sucker (v. t.) To strip off the suckers or shoots from; to deprive of suckers; as, to sucker maize..
Radiation :: Radiation (n.) The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat..
Ramenta :: Ramenta (n. pl.) Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland..
Flight :: Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..
Dribber :: Dribber (n.) One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly.
Arrowwood :: Arrowwood (n.) A shrub (Viburnum dentatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots..
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar..
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant..
Chit :: Chit (n.) The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip or dripstone.
Gleam :: Gleam (v. t.) To shoot, or dart, as rays of light; as, at the dawn, light gleams in the east..
Ramification :: Ramification (n.) The process of branching, or the development of branches or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement..
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