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A place where shooting, as with cannons or rifles, is practiced.

One of the stems or shoots of sugar cane of the second year's growth from the root, or later. See Plant-cane.

To send forth or shoot out; to cause to shine out; as, to ray smiles. [R.] Thompson.

ar material, used for sharpening scythes. Rifle pit (Mil.), a trench for sheltering sharpshooters.

To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). Fair Venusson that with thy cruel dart At that good knoght cunningly didst rove. Spenser.

s, rovers, and butt shafts. B. Jonson. At rovers, at casual marks; hence, at random; as, shooting at rovers. See def. 5 (a) above. Addison. Bound down on every side with many bands because it shall not run at rovers. Robynson (More's Utopia).

A zodiacal constellation, represented on maps and globes as a centaur shooting an arrow.

Shooting out up; springing; projecting. He had in himself a salient, living spring of generous and manly action. Burke.

A name given to certain species of willow, especially those which do not have flexible shoots, as Salix caprea, S. cinerea, etc. Sallow thorn (Bot.), a European thorny shrub (Hippophae rhamnoides) much like an Elæagnus. The yellow berries are sometimes used for making jelly, and the plant affords a yellow dye.…

ike with sudden fear; to alarm. The noise of thy crossbow Will scare the herd, and so my shoot is lost. Shak. To scare away, to drive away by frightening. -- To scare up, to find by search, as if by beating for game. [Slang]

A shoot or sprout of a plant; a sucker.

hed or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; object. "Shooting wide, do miss the marked scope." Spenser. Your scope is as mine own, So to enforce or quality the laws As to your soul seems good. Shak. The scope of all their pleading against man's authority, is to overthrow such laws an…

cal. [Obs., except in the compound selfsame.] "On these self hills." Sir. W. Raleigh. To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first. Shak. At that self moment enters Palamon. Dryden.

To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant. "To sow dry, and set wet." Old Proverb.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

To shoot. [Obs.] Chaucer.

imp. & p. p. Shoot.

earance; to seem. Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden. All round a hedge upshoots, and shows At distance like a little wood. Tennyson.

Same as Chute, or Shoot.

An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.