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Shooting out up; springing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke.

A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.…

rike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

ched or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws a…

ical. [Obs., except in the compound selfsame.] "On these self hills." Sir. W. Raleigh. To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. Shak. At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.

Dry; withered. Same as Sear. But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere. Coleridge.

To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow dry, and set wet." Old Proverb.

to cause to waver; to impair the resolution of. When his doctrines grew too strong to be shook by his enemies, they persecuted his reputation. Atterbury. Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced. Milton.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

ll a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four. The sheaf of arrows shook and rattled in the case. Dryden.

To shoot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

e should be ungartered, . . . yourshoe untied. Shak. Spare none but such as go in clouted shoon. Shak.

imp. & p. p. Shoot.

See Shoo. Beau & Fl.

pearance; to seem. Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood. Tennyson.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.