Available Definitions:
1) n. - The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of light.
2) n. - A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
3) n. - A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
4) a. - Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
5) v. i. - To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
6) v. i. - To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; -- often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
7) v. i. - To plane straight; to fit by planing.
8) v. i. - To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
9) v. i. - To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
10) v. i. - To cause an engine or weapon to discharge a missile; -- said of a person or an agent; as, they shot at a target; he shoots better than he rides.
11) v. i. - To discharge a missile; -- said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
12) v. i. - To be shot or propelled forcibly; -- said of a missile; to be emitted or driven; to move or extend swiftly, as if propelled; as, a shooting star.
13) v. i. - To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
14) v. i. - To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
15) v. i. - To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
16) v. i. - To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
17) v. i. - To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
18) v. i. - To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
19) v. i. - To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
20) n. - The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
21) n. - A young branch or growth.
22) n. - A rush of water; a rapid.
23) n. - A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
24) n. - A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
25) n. - A shoat; a young hog.