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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Maurist :: Maurist (n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) A shooting star.
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..
Watershoot :: Watershoot (n.) A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree.
Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..
Forky :: Forky (a.) Opening into two or more parts or shoots; forked; furcated.
Shete :: Shete (v. t. & i.) To shoot.
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..
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) That which shoots.
Vernine :: Vernine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance..
Spurred :: Spurred (a.) Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.
Asparaginous :: Asparaginous (a.) Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables..
Slip :: Slip (n.) To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place..
Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..
Vimineous :: Vimineous (a.) Producing long, slender twigs or shoots..
Bud :: Bud (v. i.) To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot..
Crossbowman :: Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Gunning :: Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Popgun :: Popgun (n.) A child's gun; a tube and rammer for shooting pellets, with a popping noise, by compression of air..
Upshoot :: Upshoot (v. i.) To shoot upward.
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