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ical. [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.

pearance; 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.

A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having circular plates that permit the passage of the projectile but impart a rotary motion to, and thus retard, the exploding gases.

To move or fly (out of place); to shoot; -- often with out, off, etc.; as, a bone may slip out of its place.

ll of a bright red color, and is fabled to grow from the snow, through which it sometimes shoots up.

A shoot running along under ground, forming new plants at short distances.

A shoot, as of grass; a spire.

ing such a nail in shape. He wears on his head the corona radiata . . . ; the spikes that shoot out represent the rays of the sun. Addison.

To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body; to become disproportionately tall and slender. It has begun to spindle into overintellectuality. Lowell.

A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the t…

Shooting up in a spire or spires. "The spiring grass." Dryton.

A young deer whose antlers begin to shoot or become sharp; a brocket, or pricket.

t character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. Darwin.

A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden.