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To shoot out or forth; to be thrust forward; to extend beyond a limit; to project. The parts protrude beyond the skin. Bacon.

To lop or cut off the superfluous parts, branches, or shoots of; to clear of useless material; to shape or smooth by trimming; to trim: as, to prune trees; to prune an essay. Thackeray. Taking into consideration how they [laws] are to be pruned and reformed. Bacon. Our delightful task To prune these growing plants, and…

To burst pot, as a bud or shoot. To push on, to drive or urge forward; to hasten. The rider pushed on at a rapid pace. Sir W. Scott.

Burrill. -- To put out. (a) To eject; as, to put out and intruder. (b) To put forth; to shoot, as a bud, or sprout. (c) To extinguish; as, to put out a candle, light, or fire. (d) To place at interest; to loan; as, to put out funds. (e) To provoke, as by insult; to displease; to vex; as, he was put out by my reply. […

An arrow for a crossbow; -- so named because it commonly had a square head. [Obs.] To shoot with arrows and quarrel. Sir J. Mandeville. Two arblasts, . . . with windlaces and quarrels. Sir W. Scott.

The point in the heavens at which the apparent paths of shooting stars meet, when traced backward, or whence they appear to radiate.

The shooting forth of anything from a point or surface, like the diverging rays of light; as, the radiation of heat.

Thin brownish chaffy scales upon the leaves or young shoots of some plants, especially upon the petioles and leaves of ferns. Gray.

The process of branching, or the development or offshoots from a stem; also, the mode of their arrangement.

To shoot, or divide, into branches or subdivisions, as the stem of a plant. When they [asparagus plants] . . . begin to ramify. Arbuthnot.

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

, of which the buttercup is the type, and which includes also the virgin's bower, the monkshood, larkspur, anemone, meadow rue, and peony.

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.

To bellow again; to repeat or echo a bellow. The cave rebellowed, and the temple shook. Dryden.

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

Dewy. [R.] And shook his wings with rory May-dew wet. Fairfax.

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.

ts, 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.