Shoot
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) A rush of water; a rapid.
(2): ( v. i.) To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
(3): ( v. i.) To penetrate, as a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation; as, shooting pains.
(4): ( v. i.) To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
(5): ( v. i.) To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
(6): ( n.) A young branch or growth.
(7): ( v. i.) To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into a promontory.
(8): ( v. i.) To grow; to advance; as, to shoot up rapidly.
(9): ( v. i.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
(10): ( v. i.) To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; - often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
(11): ( 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.
(12): ( v. i.) 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.
(13): ( v. i.) 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.
(14): ( v. i.) 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.
(15): ( n.) An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; also, a narrow passage, either natural or artificial, in a stream, where the water rushes rapidly; esp., a channel, having a swift current, connecting the ends of a bend in the stream, so as to shorten the course.
(16): ( n.) The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot; as, the shoot of a shuttle.
(17): ( v. i.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
(18): ( v. i.) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
(19): ( v. i.) To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.
(20): ( 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.
(21): ( v. i.) To discharge a missile; - said of an engine or instrument; as, the gun shoots well.
(22): ( 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.
(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.
King James Dictionary [2]
Shoot, prte. and pp. shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. L. scateo, to shoot out water.
1. To let fly and drive with force as, to shoot an arrow. 2. To discharge and cause to be driven with violence as, to shoot a ball.
And from about her shot darts of desire. Milton.
4. To let off used of the instrument.
The two ends of a bow shot off, fly from one another. Boyle.
5. To strike with any thing shot as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet. 6. To send out to push forth as, a plant shoots a branch. 7. To push out to emit to dart to thrust forth.
Beware of the secret snake that shoots a sting. Dryden.
8. To push forward to drive to propel as, to shoot a bolt. 9. To push out to thrust forward.
They shoot out the lip. Psalms 22 .
The phrase, to shoot out the lip, signifies to treat with derision or contempt.
10. To pass through with swiftness as, to shoot the Stygian flood. 11. To fit to each other by planing a workman's term.
Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or pared with a chisel.
Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types [3]
Psalm 11:2 (b) This figure represents the cutting, stinging words that one might speak against another. The words come quickly in hatred and anger, and deeply wound the person spoken against. (See also Psalm 64:3).
