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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shoot \Shoot\, v. i. 1. To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides. The archers have . . . shot at him --Gen. xlix. 23. 2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as the gun shoots well 3. 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. There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden. 4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as shooting pains. Thy words shoot through my heart. --Addison. 5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain. These preachers make His head to shoot and ache. --Herbert. 6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. --Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. --Dryden. 7. To grow; to advance; as to shoot up rapidly. Well shot in years he seemed. --Spenser. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot. --Thomson. 8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify. If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals. --Bacon. 9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as the land shoots into a promontory. There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses. --Dickens. 10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. {To shoot ahead}, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shoot \Shoot\, n. [F. chute. See {Chute}. Confused with shoot to let fly.] An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course. [Written also {chute}, and {shute}.] [U. S.] {To take a shoot}, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr & vb n. {Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See {Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien AS scotian, v. i., sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan Icel. skj?ta, Sw skjuta Dan. skyde; cf Skr. skund to jump. [root]159. Cf {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject, {Scud}, {Scuttle}, v. i., {Shot}, {Sheet}, {Shut}, {Shuttle}, {Skittish}, {Skittles}.] 1. 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. If you please To shoot an arrow that self way --Shak. 2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off as to shoot a gun. The two ends od a bow, shot off fly from one another. --Boyle. 3. 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. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. --A. Tucker. 4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. --Macaulay. 5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out as a plant shoots out a bud. They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps. xxii. 7. Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. --Dryden. 6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing. Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is planed or else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon. 7. To pass rapidly through over or under as to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar. She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden. 8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches. The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson. {To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of [Colloq.] ``Are you not glad to be shot of him?'' --Sir W. Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shoot \Shoot\, n. 1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as the shoot of a shuttle. The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot. --Bacon. One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. 2. A young branch or growth. Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring. --Evelyn. 3. A rush of water; a rapid. 4. (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. --Knight. 5. (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick 6. [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shoot n 1: a new branch 2: the act of shooting at targets; "they hold a shoot every weekend during the summer" v 1: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {hit}, {pip}] 2: kill by firing a missile [syn: {pip}] 3: fire a shot 4: make a film or photograph of something "take a scene"; "shoot a movie" [syn: {film}, {take}] 5: send forth suddenly, intensely, swiftly;"shoot a glance" 6: run or move very quickly or hastily; "She dashed into the yard" [syn: {dart}, {dash}, {scoot}, {scud}, {flash}] 7: move quickly and violently; "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office" [syn: {tear}, {shoot down}, {charge}, {buck}] 8: play a shot; hit a ball; as in golf, hockey, etc 9: record on photographic film"I photographed the scene of the accident" [syn: {photograph}, {snap}] 10: emit (as light, flame, or fumes) suddenly and forcefully; "The dragon shot fumes and flames out of its mouth" 11: cause a shooting pain 12: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: {inject}] 13: spend frivolously and unwisely; "Fritter away one's inheritance" [syn: {fritter}, {frivol away}, {dissipate}, {fritter away}, {fool}, {fool away}] 14: produce buds, branches, or germinate; of plants [syn: {spud}, {germinate}, {pullulate}, {bourgeon}, {burgeon forth}, {sprout}] 15: give an injection to "We injected the glucose into the patient's vein" [syn: {inject}]
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