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The act of ingrafting a sprig or shoot of one tree into another, without cutting it from the parent stock; -- called, also, inarching and grafting by approach.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

A mode of propagating trees by bending branches to the ground, and covering the small shoots with earth; layering. Chambers.

ntatum) growing in damp woods and thickets; -- so called from the long, straight, slender shoots.

Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.

rd an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one. At all, At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At least. See Leas…

me genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

To catch or shoot birds.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

To shoot; to discharge or drive forth.

To shoot out the nose or toss it in the air; Crabb.

To sprout; to put forth buds; to shoot forth, as a branch. Gayly to bourgeon and broadly to grow. Sir W. Scott.

The hand that holds the bow, i. e., the left hand. Surely he shoots wide on the bow hand. Spenser.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem, or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant.

That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

Destitude of branches or shoots; without any valuable product; barren; naked.

To feed on the tender branches or shoots of shrubs or trees, as do cattle, sheep, and deer.