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Of or pertaining to shooting; for shooting; darting. Shootingboard (Joinery), a fixture used in planing or shooting the edge of aboard, by means of which the plane is guided and the board held true.-- Shooting box, a small house in the country for use in theshooting season. Prof. Wilson.-- Shooting gallery, a range, usually covered, with targets forpractice with firearms.-- Shooting iron, a firearm. [Slang, U.S.] -- Shooting star. (a)(Astron.) A starlike, luminous meteor, that, appearing suddenly,darts quickly across some portion of the sky, and then as suddenlydisappears, leaving sometimes, for a few seconds, a luminous train, -- called also falling star. Shooting stars are small cosmical bodieswhich encounter the earth in its annual revolution, and which becomevisible by coming with planetary velocity into the upper regions ofthe atmosphere. At certain periods, as on the 13th of November and10th of August, they appear for a few hours in great numbers,apparently diverging from some point in the heavens, such displaysbeing known as meteoric showers, or star showers. These bodies,before encountering the earth, were moving in orbits closely alliedto the orbits of comets. See Leonids, Perseids. (b) (Bot.) TheAmerican cowslip (Dodecatheon Meadia). See under Cowslip.-- Shooting stick (Print.), a tapering piece of wood or iron, usedby printers to drive up the quoins in the chase. Hansard.