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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shoot \Shoot\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shot}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shooting}. The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete. See {Shotten}.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, verb (used without an object), sce['o]tan; akin to D. schieten, G. schie?en, OHG. sciozan, Icel. skj?ta, Sw. skjuta, Dan. skyde; cf. Skr. skund to jump. [root]159. Cf. {Scot} a contribution, {Scout} to reject, {Scud}, {Scuttle}, verb (used without an object), {Shot}, {Sheet}, {Shut}, {Shuttle}, {Skittish}, {Skittles}.]
1. To let fly, or cause to be driven, with force, as an arrow or a bullet; -- followed by a word denoting the missile, as an object.
If you please To shoot an arrow that self way. --Shak.
2. To discharge, causing a missile to be driven forth; -- followed by a word denoting the weapon or instrument, as an object; -- often with off; as, to shoot a gun.
The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one another. --Boyle.
3. To strike with anything shot; to hit with a missile; often, to kill or wound with a firearm; -- followed by a word denoting the person or thing hit, as an object.
When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. --A. Tucker.
4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. --Macaulay.
5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps. xxii. 7.
Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting. --Dryden.
6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel. --Moxon.
7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
She . . . shoots the Stygian sound. --Dryden.
8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
The tangled water courses slept, Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow. --Tennyson.
{To be shot of}, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of. [Colloq.] ''Are you not glad to be shot of him?'' --Sir W. Scott.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shooting \Shoot"ing\, noun
1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
3. A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shooting \Shoot"ing\, adjective Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
{Shooting board} (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of a board, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.
{Shooting box}, a small house in the country for use in the shooting season. --Prof. Wilson.
{Shooting gallery}, a range, usually covered, with targets for practice with firearms.
{Shooting iron}, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.]
{Shooting star}. (a) (Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly, darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenly disappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also {falling star}.
Note: Shooting stars are small cosmical bodies which encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which become visible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions of the atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and 10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers, apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displays being known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies, before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely allied to the orbits of comets. See {Leonids}, {Perseids}. (b) (Bot.) The American cowslip ({Dodecatheon Meadia}). See under {Cowslip}.
{Shooting stick} (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, used by printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. --Hansard.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shooting
noun
1: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but accurate" [syn: {shot}]
2: killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
189 Moby Thesaurus words for "shooting": acute, acute pain, afflictive, agonizing, antiaircraft fire, archery, atrocious, bane, beheading, bite, biting, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, boring pain, braining, burning, capital punishment, casting, charley horse, chase, chevy, chivy, chucking, coursing, cramp, cramping, cramps, crick, cross fire, crucifixion, cruel, curtain fire, cynegetics, darting pain, dealing death, decapitation, decollation, defenestration, destruction, destruction of life, direct fire, dispatch, distressing, dry fire, electrocution, euthanasia, excruciating, execution, extermination, falconry, file fire, fire, fire of demolition, firepower, fireworks, firing, flack, flak, flinging, flow of blood, fox hunting, fulgurant pain, fusillade, garrote, gassing, girdle pain, gnawing, gore, grave, griping, ground fire, gunfight, gunfire, gunnery, gunning, gunplay, hanging, hard, harrowing, harsh, hawking, heaving, hemlock, high-angle fire, hitch, horizontal fire, hunt, hunting, hurling, hurtful, hurting, immolation, interdiction fire, jaculation, judicial murder, jumping pain, kill, killing, kink, knifelike, lancinating pain, lapidation, lobbing, machine-gun fire, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, mortar fire, musketry, necktie party, nip, painful, pang, paroxysm, paroxysmal, percussion fire, piercing, pinch, pistol fire, pitching, poignant, poisoning, prick, projection, pungent, racking, raking fire, rapid fire, ricochet fire, rifle fire, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, seizure, severe, sharp, sharp pain, shellfire, shikar, shoot, shoot-out, shooting pain, skeet, skeet shooting, slaughter, slaying, slinging, spasm, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, sport, sporting, stab, stabbing, stabbing pain, stalking, still hunt, stinging, stitch, stoning, strangling, strangulation, taking of life, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows, the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, thrill, throes, throwing, time fire, tormen, tormenting, torturous, trajection, trapshooting, tweak, twinge, twitch, venery, vertical fire, wrench, zone fire
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