Shoot /(?)/

1. 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. [U. S.]

imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n. Shooting

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.

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.

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.

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.

   A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.

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.

   Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.

6. To plane straight; to fit by planing. (Carp.)

   Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.

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.

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.

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.

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.

4. To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.

   Thy words shoot through my heart.

5. To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.

   These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.

6. To germinate; to bud; to sprout.

   Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.

   But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.

7. To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.

   Well shot in years he seemed.

   Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

8. To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.

   If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.

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.

10. To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee. (Naut.)

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.

   One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.

2. A young branch or growth.

   Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.

3. A rush of water; a rapid.
4. A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode. (Min.)
5. A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick. (Weaving)
6. A shoat; a young hog.