Definition of shoot

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Shoot (n.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.

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Stonebrash :: Stonebow (n.) A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones.
Crossbowman :: Crossbowman (n.) One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.
Shooter :: Shooter (n.) One who shoots, as an archer or a gunner..
Vernine :: Vernine (n.) An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance..
Vimen :: Vimen (n.) A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch..
Plant-cane :: Plant-cane (n.) A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from the cutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferior quality, and is called rattoon..
Approaching :: Approaching (n.) The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach..
Jut :: "Jut (v. i.) To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building..
Branching :: Branching (a.) Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches.
Twiggy :: Twiggy (a.) Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots.
Vimineous :: Vimineous (a.) Producing long, slender twigs or shoots..
Sprit :: Sprit (n.) A shoot; a sprout.
Oelet :: Oelet (n.) An eye, bud, or shoot, as of a plant; an oilet..
Shooty :: Shooty (a.) Sprouting or coming up freely and regularly.
Shoot :: Shoot (v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
Overshoot :: Overshoot (v. t.) To shoot over or beyond.
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..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To free of the missile with which anything is charged or loaded; to let go the charge of; as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar..
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