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Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting..

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..

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..

Shot :: Shot (n.) A marksman; one who practices shooting; as, an exellent shot..

Shooting :: Shooting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shoo.

Outshoot :: Outshoot (v. t.) To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond.

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..

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

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..

Sharpshooter :: Sharpshooter (n.) One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.

Glancing :: Glancing (a.) Shooting, as light..

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

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.

Shooting :: Shooting (n.) A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head..

Gyropigeon :: Gyropigeon (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches..

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..

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

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..

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