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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.

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

ng 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.

f appetite had grown By what if fed on. Shak. For things of tender kind for pleasure made Shoot up with swift increase, and sudden are decay'd. Dryden.

A newly formed shoot, or the annually produced addition to the stems of many mosses.

A sharpshooter. See Yager.

A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and curved shore." Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.

A lout; a clown. [Obs.] The country knuffs, Hob, Dick, and Hick, With clubs and clouted shoon. Hayward.

A shoot or twig of a plant, not detached from the stock, laid under ground for growth or propagation.

To shoot out leaves; to produce leaves; to leave; as, the trees leaf in May. Sir T. Browne.

One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty- three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.

consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody. It should be tried with shoots of vines and roots of red roses; for it may be they, being of a moreligneous nature, will incorporate with the tree itself. Bacon. Ligneous marble, wood coated or prepared so as to resemble marble.

Jonson. -- Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

One of the group of shooting stars which come into the air in certain years on or about the 19th of April; -- so called because the apparent path among the stars the stars if produced back wards crosses the constellation Lyra.

which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

" A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.