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ll of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.

A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

ing such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender. It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality. Lowell.

A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the t…

Shooting up in a spire or spires. "The spiring grass." Dryton.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

t character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin.

A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden.

A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. Dryden.

Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant. Thou blessest the springing thereof. Ps. lxv. 10. Springing line of an arch (Arch.), the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also spring of an arch.

A shoot; a sprout. [Obs.] Mortimer.

To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.

largely used in tanning leather. -- Spruce beer. Etym: [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See Sprout, n., Beer, and cf. Spruce, n.] A kind o…

A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

A shoot; a bud. [Obs.] Holland.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. [Obs.] Drayton.