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Full of shoots. [Obs.] Evelyn.

To shoot; to dart like lightning; to fulminate; to utter with authority or vehemence. She fulmined out her scorn of laws Salique. Tennyson.

To shoot down of shoot at by a simultaneous discharge of firearms.

ch of old, we used to gall them with our longbows, at a greater distance than they could shoot their arrows. Addison.

A round gall produced on the leaves and shoots of various species of the oak tree. See Gall, and Nutgall.

To sprout; to bud; to shoot; to begin to vegetate, as a plant or its seed; to begin to develop, as a germ. Bacon.

To shoot or emit a flash of light; to shine; to flash. From art, from nature, from the schools, Let random influences glance, Like light in many a shivered lance, That breaks about the dappled pools. Tennyson.

Shooting, as light. When through the gancing lightnings fly. Rowe.

To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.

A shoot of light; a small stream of light; a beam; a ray; a glimpse. Transient unexpected gleams of joi. Addison. At last a gleam Of dawning light turned thitherward in haste His [Satan's] traveled steps. Milton. A glimmer, and then a gleam of light. Longfellow.

A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.

To seek or shoot grouse.

The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun. The art of gunning was but little practiced. Goldsmith.

The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.

a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches. Knight.

ive laughter; or sometimes it is equivalent to "Well, it is so." Ha-has, and inarticulate hootings of satirical rebuke. Carlyle.

with a loud voice; to call to a person, as by the word halloo. Country folks hallooed and hooted after me. Sir P. Sidney.

g hay from the load by horse power. -- Harpoon gun, a gun used in the whale fishery for shooting the harpoon into a whale.

Eating green shoots, as certain insects do.

A shoot; a scion; a bud; a slip; a graft. [Obs.] Chaucer.