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A little shoot; a twig; a sucker. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Producing suckers, or shoots resembling suckers.

The shoulder of the bolt of a lock on which the key acts to shoot the bolt. Knight.

A butt or mark to shoot at, as for practice, or to test the accuracy of a firearm, or the force of a projectile.

To move across or counter to; to cross; as, an arrow thwarts the air. [Obs.] Swift as a shooting star In autumn thwarts the night. Milton.

A shoot of a plant, springing from the root or bottom of the original stalk; a sucker.

ything drawn out to a length; as, the trail of a meteor; a trail of smoke. When lightning shoots in glittering trails along. Rowe.

Having three knots or nodes; having three points from which a leaf may shoot; as, a trinodal stem.

A shoot or sprout from the ground. Gray.

Producing shoots, as asparagus. Barton.

A small shoot or branch of a tree or other plant, of no definite length or size. The Britons had boats made of willow twigs, covered on the outside with hides. Sir T. Raleigh. Twig borer (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small beetles which bore into twigs of shrubs and trees, as the apple-tree twig borer (Amphice…

Of or pertaining to a twig or twigs; like a twig or twigs; full of twigs; abounding with shoots. " Twiggy trees." Evelyn.

To have a sudden, sharp, local pain, like a twitch; to suffer a keen, darting, or shooting pain; as, the side twinges.

s of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon.

To grow or shoot up like a spear; as, upspearing grass. [R.] Cowper.

An alkaloid extracted from the shoots of the vetch, red clover, etc., as a white crystalline substance.

A long, slender, flexible shoot or branch.

Producing long, slender twigs or shoots.

t.), a fungous growth which forms a white, delicate, cottony layer upon the leaves, young shoots, and fruit of the vine, causing brown spots upon the green parts, and finally a hardening and destruction of the vitality of the surface. The plant has been called Oidium Tuckeri, but is now thought to be the conidia- produ…

her of the mark; too far side-wise from the mark, the wicket, the batsman, etc. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser. I was but two bows wide. Massinger.