Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 The old participle {Shotten} is obsolete.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.

            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.

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.

   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.

Shooting \Shoot"ing\, a.
   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.

Source : WordNet®

shooting
     n 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"