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The act of one who or that which shoots as the shooting of an archery club the shooting of rays of light...
Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm
Shooting or wounding, or causing any grievous bodily harm, with intention to maim, disfigure, or disable, or to do some other grievous bodily harm, or with intent to resist or prevent the lawful apprehension or detaining of any person, is a felony; see 24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 18....
Birds
Birds. Larceny may be committed at Common Law of domestic fowls, as hens, ducks, geese, etc. (1 Hale, PC 511), and of tame pigeons, though unconfined, Reg. v. Cheafor, (1851) 2 Den CCR 361, and of tame pheasants, Reg. v. Head, (1857) 1 F&F 350; or partridges, Reg. v. Shickle, (1868) LR 1 CCR 158. The (English) Larceny Act, 1861, ss. 21-23, provides, that whoever shall steal, or kill with intent to steal, birds ordinarily kept in a state of confinement, or for any domestic purposes, not being the subject of larceny at Common Law, or shall be in possession of any such bird, or the plumage thereof, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punishable on summary conviction by fine or imprisonment.As to unlawfully and wilfully killing or wounding house doves or pigeons under circumstances not amounting to larceny at Common Law, see (English) Larceny Act, 1861, s. 23, and Malicious Damage Act, 1861, s. 41. See also the (English) Poultry Act, 1911, and the Protection of Animals Act, 1911...
Leonid
One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower that recurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty three years so called because these shooting stars appear on the heavens to move in lines directed from the constellation Leo...
Outshoot
To exceed or excel in shooting to shoot beyond...
Banyan
A tree of the same genus as the common fig and called the Indian fig Ficus Indica whose branches send shoots to the ground which take root and become additional trunks until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men...
Bolis
A meteor or brilliant shooting star followed by a train of light or sparks esp one which explodes...
Bourgeon
To sprout to put forth buds to shoot forth as a branch...
Branch
A shoot or secondary stem growing from the main stem or from a principal limb or bough of a tree or other plant...
Brancher
That which shoots forth branches one who shows growth in various directions...
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