shooting
    n 1: the act of firing a projectile; "his shooting was slow but
         accurate" [syn: shooting, shot]
    2: killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there
       were three dead bodies"

Shoot \Shoot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shot; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Shooting. The old participle Shotten is obsolete. See
   Shotten.] [OE. shotien, schotien, AS. scotian, v. i.,
   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, v. i., 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.
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            If you please
            To shoot an arrow that self way.      --Shak.
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   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.
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            The two ends od a bow, shot off, fly from one
            another.                              --Boyle.
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   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.
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            When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's
            dove house.                           --A. Tucker.
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   4. To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden
      motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to
      emit.
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            An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. --Beau. & Fl.
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            A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot
            corpses by scores.                    --Macaulay.
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   5. To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; --
      often with out; as, a plant shoots out a bud.
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            They shoot out the lip, they shake the head. --Ps.
                                                  xxii. 7.
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            Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   6. (Carp.) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
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            Two pieces of wood that are shot, that is, planed or
            else pared with a paring chisel.      --Moxon.
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   7. To pass rapidly through, over, or under; as, to shoot a
      rapid or a bridge; to shoot a sand bar.
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            She . . . shoots the Stygian sound.   --Dryden.
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   8. To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to
      color in spots or patches.
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            The tangled water courses slept,
            Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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   To be shot of, to be discharged, cleared, or rid of.
      [Colloq.] "Are you not glad to be shot of him?" --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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Shooting \Shoot"ing\, a.
   Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting.
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   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.
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Shooting \Shoot"ing\, n.
   1. The act of one who, or that which, shoots; as, the
      shooting of an archery club; the shooting of rays of
      light.
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   2. A wounding or killing with a firearm; specifically
      (Sporting), the killing of game; as, a week of shooting.
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   3. A sensation of darting pain; as, a shooting in one's head.
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