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n who is found at his standing in the forest, with a crossbow or a longbow bent, ready to shoot at a deer, or close by a tree with greyhounds in a leash ready to slip; -- one of the four presumptions that a man intends stealing the king's deer. Wharton.

f his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. Bacon. One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. Drayton.

To shoot with pain. [Prov. Eng.]

A small shoot, or branch, separated, as by a cutting, from a tree or shrub; also, any stem or branch of a tree, of any size, cut for fuel or timber. Withered sticks to gather, which might serve Against a winter's day. Milton.

A kind of crossbow formerly used for shooting stones. Shak.

To ramfy; to tiller, as grain; to shoot out suckers. R. D. Blackmore.

e or stretch beyond proper limits, as the branches of a plant; to spread widely apart; to shoot too far or widely in growth. Trim off the small, superfluous branches on each side of the hedge that straggle too far out. Mortimer.

Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth. Let thy hand supply the pruning knife, And crop luxuriant stragglers. Dryden.

A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.

A shoot from the roots or lower part of the stem of a plant; -- so called, perhaps, from diverting nourishment from the body of the plant.

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.

fort; to strain in labor; as, to tug at the oar; to tug against the stream. He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton.

A shoot or sprout from the ground. Gray.