▪ I. ˈupshoot, n.
[up- 2.]
1. = upshot n. 4. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. iv. i. 138 Then will shee get the vp⁓shoot by cleauing the pin. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 258 That the chife point of cunning and perfection was in the up-shoot and end of all. 1624 Heywood Captives ii. i, Hee no questione, That sett mee on to compasse this my will, May when the up-shoote comes assist mee still. 1887 S. Cheshire Gloss. 418 Th' upshoot on [= of] it. |
2. The act of shooting up or the result of this; an upward rush (of something).
| 1850 W. Howitt Year-Bk. of Country iv. 172 His oaks and elms in his park..what are they but the towering upshoots of his prejudices? 1866 Alger Solit. Nat. & Man. i. 25 A palm, in its resistless upshoot, cleaving altar and image. 1890 Nature 9 Jan. 228/2 If the individual is the mere..upshoot from the continuous root of ancestral plasm. 1898 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 29 Mar. 12/4 The upshoot of flame..was well forward. |
▪ II. upˈshoot, v.
[up- 4. Cf. WFris. opsjitte, Du. opschieten, LG. upschêten, G. aufschiessen.]
1. intr. To spring or grow up. Also upˈshooting pres. pple.
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 58 The painted flowres, the trees vpshooting hye. 1841 Campbell Child & Hind iv, Where Elysian meadows smile, And noble trees upshoot. 1842 Tennyson Day-Dream, Sleeping Palace vi, All round a hedge upshoots. 1876 Blackie Songs Relig. & Life 4 Like a star in strength upshooting. |
2. trans. and refl. To send or raise up.
| 1804 W. L. Bowles Spir. Discov. iv. 332 A beauteous tree upshoots amid the glade Its trembling top. 1856 Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) II. 166 A beautiful sheet of water, and a fountain upshooting itself. 1872 Blackie Lays Highl. 89 Here erect..The Buchail More upshoots his Titan cone. |