If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
Bacon.
9. To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend; as, the land shoots into
a promontory.
There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
Dickens.
10. (Naut.) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel
when the helm is put hard alee.
To shoot ahead, to pass or move quickly forward; to outstrip others.
Shoot, n. 1. The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot;
as, the shoot of a shuttle.
The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot.
Bacon.
One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
Drayton.