[UP- 4. Cf. WFris. opsjitte, Du. opschieten, LG. upschêten, G. aufschiessen.]
1. intr. To spring or grow up. Also Upshooting 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.
