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   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.]
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   To take a shoot, to pass through a shoot instead of the main channel; to take the most direct course. [U.S.]
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   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 The old participle Shotten is obsolete.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., sceótan; akin to D. schieten, G. schieen, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skjta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. √159.  Cf. Scot a contribution, Scout to reject, Scud, Scuttle, v. i., Shot, Sheet, Shut, Shuttle, Skittish, Skittles.]
   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.
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   If you please
   To shoot an arrow that self way.
   Shak.
   
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   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.
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   The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another.
   Boyle.
   
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   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.
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   When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house.
   A. Tucker.
   
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   To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
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   An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle.
   Beau. & Fl.
   
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   A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores.
   Macaulay.
   
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   To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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   They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
   Ps. xxii. 7.
   
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   Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
   Dryden.
   
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   (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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   Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel.
   Moxon.
   
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   To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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   She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.
   Dryden.
   
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   To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
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   The tangled water courses slept,
   Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
   Tennyson.
   
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   To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] “Are you not glad to be shot of him?”
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   Shoot, v. i.
   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.
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   The archers have . . . shot at him.
   Gen. xlix. 23.
   
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   To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
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   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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   There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
   Dryden.
   
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   To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
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   Thy words shoot through my heart.
   Addison.
   
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   To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
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   These preachers make
   His head to shoot and ache.
   Herbert.
   
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   To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
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   Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
   Bacon.
   
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   But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain.
   Dryden.
   
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   To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
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   Well shot in years he seemed.
   Spenser.
   
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   Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
   To teach the young idea how to shoot.
   Thomson.
   
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   To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
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   If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
   Bacon.
   
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   To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
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   There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
   Dickens.
   
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   (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
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   To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
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   Shoot, n.
   The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
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   The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
   Bacon.
   
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   One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
   Drayton.
   
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   A young branch or growth.
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   Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
   Evelyn.
   
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   A rush of water; a rapid.
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   (Min.) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
   Knight.
   
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   (Weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
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   [Perh. a different word.] A shoat; a young hog.
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