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(a) to ascend; to rise. (b) To be brought up; to arise, as a question. (c) To spring; to shoot or rise above the earth, as a plant. (d) To come into use, as a fashion. -- To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. -- To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken…

a commotion. Those two massy pillars, With horrible convulsion, to and fro He tugged, he shook, till down they came. Milton. Times of violence and convulsion. Ames.

, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound. Loud thunder to its bottom shook the bog, And the hoarse nation croaked. Pope.

One who shoots with a crossbow. See Arbalest.

To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot; as, the sun darts forth his beams. Or what ill eyes malignant glances dart Pope.

To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.

A place into which wild fowl, esp. ducks, are enticed in order to take or shoot them.

To deprive of buds or shoots, as for training, or economizing the vital strength of a tree.

as, to discharge a bow, catapult, etc.; especially, said of firearms, -- to fire off; to shoot off; also, to relieve from a state of tension, as a Leyden jar. The galleys also did oftentimes, out of their prows, discharge their great pieces against the city. Knolles. Feeling in other cases discharges itself in indirec…

To make allowance for the dispart in (a gun), when taking aim. Every gunner, before he shoots, must truly dispart his piece. Lucar.

To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

One who dribs; one who shoots weakly or badly. [Obs.] Ascham.

To fall short of a mark. [R.] Often it drops or overshoots by the disproportion of distance. Collier.

s heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

To shoot forth, as rays of light; to beam; to radiate. Dr. H. More.

To discharge; to shoot. [Obs.] Then he another and another [shaft] did expel. Spenser. .

7th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

Any shoot or other thing by which hold is taken. The protuberant fangs of the yucca. Evelyn.

Prepared; ready. [Obs.] So fit to shoot, she singled forth among her foes who first her quarry's strength should feel. Fairfax.

A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.