Word Meanings - SHARPSHOOTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• CONTESTABLE
  Capable of being contested; debatable.
• SHOOTING
  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 , the killing of game; as, a week of shooting. 3. A sensation of darting pain;
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• CONTEST
  1. Earnest dispute; strife in argument; controversy; debate; altercation. Leave all noisy contests, all immodest clamors and brawling language. I. Watts. 2. Earnest struggle for superiority, victory, defense, etc.; competition; emulation; strife
• CONTESTATION
  1. The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute. "Loverlike contestation." Milton. After years spent in domestic, unsociable contestations, she found means to withdraw. Clarendon. 2. Proof by witness; attestation; testimony. A solemn
• EFFECT
  1. To produce, as a cause or agent; to cause to be. So great a body such exploits to effect. Daniel. 2. To bring to pass; to execute; to enforce; to achieve; to accomplish. To effect that which the divine counsels had decreed. Bp. Hurd. They sailed
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• ARGUMENTIZE
  To argue or discuss. Wood.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• ARGUMENTATIVE
  1. Consisting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse. 2. Adductive as proof; indicative; as, the adaptation of things to their uses is argumentative of infinite wisdom in the Creator.
• GREATEN
  To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
• ARGUMENTAL
  Of, pertaining to, or containing, argument; argumentative.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• OVERSHOOT
  1. To shoot over or beyond. "Not to overshoot his game." South. 2. To pass swiftly over; to fly beyond. Hartle. 3. To exceed; as, to overshoot the truth. Cowper. To overshoot one's self, to venture too far; to assert too much.
• TRAP SHOOTING
  Shooting at pigeons liberated, or glass balls or clay pigeons sprung into the air, from a trap. -- Trap shooter.
• OUTSHOOT
  To exceed or excel in shooting; to shoot beyond. Bacon. Men are resolved never to outshoot their forefathers' mark. Norris.
• REARGUMENT
  An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• INCONTESTED
  Not contested. Addison.
• UNDERSHOOT
  To shoot short of .
• UNCONTESTABLE
  Incontestable.