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To shoot short of (a mark).

To remove a hood or disguise from. Quarterly Rev.

To loose from a hook; to undo or open by loosening or unfastening the hooks of; as, to unhook a fish; to unhook a dress.

To strip or deprive of hoops; to take away the hoops of.

Absence of likelihood.

Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Untriftiness. [Obs.] Spenser.

To shoot upward. "Trees upshooting high." Spenser.

A gab at the end of an eccentric rod, with long jaws, shaped like the letter V.

In Ireland, a national school which has been built by the aid of grants from the board of Commissioners of National Education and is secured for educational purposes by leases to the commissioners themselves, or to the commissioners and the trustees.

Virginity; maidenhood.

The burning bush; -- said to be called after a quack medicine made from it.

A certain shrub (Evonymus atropurpureus) having purple capsules which in dehiscence expose the scarlet-ariled seeds; -- called also burning bush.

A sprig or shoot from the root or stock of a tree. [Obs.]

An American tree, the winged elm. (Ulmus alata).

Having an undivided hoof, as the horse.

Hubbub. [Obs.] Shak.

The hoopoe.

One who, or that which, whooops. Woopher swan. (Zoöl.) See the Note under Swan.

a. & n. from Whoop, v. t. Whooping cough (Med.), a violent, convulsive cough, returning at longer or shorter intervals, and consisting of several expirations, followed by a sonorous inspiration, or whoop; chin cough; hooping cough. Dunglison. -- Whooping crane (Zoöl.), a North American crane (Crus Americana) noted for…