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.
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            The archers have . . . shot at him.   --Gen. xlix.
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   2. To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or
      instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
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   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.
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            There shot a streaming lamp along the sky. --Dryden.
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   4. 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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   5. 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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   6. 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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   7. 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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   8. 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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   9. 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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   10. (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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