dart

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A slender, pointed missile, often having tail fins, thrown by hand, shot from a blowgun, or expelled by an exploding bomb.
• noun Games A game in which such missiles are thrown at a target.
• noun An object likened to such a missile.
• noun The stinger of an insect.
• noun A sudden, rapid movement.
• noun A tapered tuck sewn to adjust the fit of a garment.
• intransitive verb To move suddenly and rapidly.
• intransitive verb To be directed suddenly and rapidly.
• intransitive verb To cause to dart.
• intransitive verb Archaic To throw or cast (a dart or missile).
• intransitive verb To cast (a look or the eyes) suddenly and rapidly in a direction.
• intransitive verb To shoot (an animal, for example) with a dart, especially to inject a drug.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To throw with a sudden thrust, as a pointed instrument.
• To throw or thrust suddenly or rapidly; emit; shoot: as, the sun darts forth his beams.
• To pierce; spear; transfix.
• To have the piercing movement or effect of a dart; move swiftly, like a dart.
• To spring or start suddenly and run swiftly: as, the deer darted from the thicket.
• noun A pointed missile weapon thrown or thrust-by the hand; a small and light spear or javelin, sometimes hurled by the aid of a strap or thong.
• noun A kind of eel-spear.
• noun A spear set up as a prize for victory in running or other athletic contests.
• noun Anything like a dart in shape, use, or effect.
• noun In conch., a love-dart, or spiculum amoris
• noun One of various moths, so called by British collectors
• noun A seam uniting two edges of stuff from between which a gore has been cut away: designed to shape a garment to the figure.
• noun Figuratively, a piercing look or utterance.
• noun A sudden swift movement.
• noun Same as dace, 1.
• noun Plan; scheme.
• noun Idea; ‘style’; fancy: as, “strawberries and cream, eh!—that's my dart.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
• transitive verb To throw suddenly or rapidly; to send forth; to emit; to shoot.
• intransitive verb To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart.
• intransitive verb To start and run with velocity; to shoot rapidly along.
• noun A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
• noun Anything resembling a dart; anything that pierces or wounds like a dart.
• noun obsolete A spear set as a prize in running.
• noun (Zoöl.) A fish; the dace. See Dace.
• noun (Zoöl.) a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
• noun Anything resembling such a pointed missile weapon; anything that pierces or wounds like such a weapon.
• noun Australia, obsolete A plan or scheme.
• noun A sudden or fast movement.
• noun sewing A fold that is stitched on a garment.
• noun zoology A fish; the dace.
• noun in the plural A game of throwing darts at a target.
• verb transitive To throw with a sudden effort or thrust, as a dart or other missile weapon; to hurl or launch.
• verb transitive To send forth suddenly or rapidly; to emit; to shoot
• verb intransitive To fly or pass swiftly, as a dart; to move rapidly in one direction; to shoot out quickly