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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.

To put forth or produce buds, as a plant; to grow, as a bud does, into a flower or shoot.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

nd of a mother's blessing. Shak. A butt's length, the ordinary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. -- Butts and bounds (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as…

The embryo or the growing bud of a plant; a shoot; a sprout; as, the chits of Indian corn or of potatoes.

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The inner bark of the shoots of Cinnamomum Zeylanicum, a tree growing in Ceylon. It is aromatic, of a moderately pungent taste, and is one of the best cordial, carminative, and restorative spices.

The center of the butt at which archers shoot; -- probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. A'must shoot nearer or he'll ne'er hit the clout. Shak.

To frisk or frolic like a colt; to act licentiously or wantonly. [Obs.] They shook off their bridles and began to colt. Spenser.