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The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.

Same as Craps.

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.

The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.

A meteor or brilliant shooting star, followed by a train of light or sparks; esp. one which explodes.

A small country house. "A shooting box." Wilson. Tight boxes neatly sashed. Cowper.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. [Also but shaft.] Shak.

nd of a mother's blessing. Shak. A butt's length, the ordinary distance from the place of shooting to the butt, or mark. -- Butts and bounds (Conveyancing), abuttals and boundaries. In lands of the ordinary rectangular shape, butts are the lines at the ends (F. bouts), and bounds are those on the sides, or sidings, as…

s heat and smoke; boiling water emits steam; the sun emits light. Lest, wrathful, the far-shooting god emit His fatal arrows. Prior.

7th century. -- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak. -- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star. -- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; a meteorite; an aërolite. -- Falling tide, the ebb tide. -- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.

A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft. [Obs.] Challenged Cupid at the flight. Shak. Not a flight drawn home E'er made that haste that they have. Beau. & Fl.

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap. Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

To catch or kill wild fowl, for game or food, as by shooting, or by decoys, nets, etc. Such persons as may lawfully hunt, fish, or fowl. Blackstone. Fowling piece, a light gun with smooth bore, adapted for the use of small shot in killing birds or small quadrupeds.

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

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

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.

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.