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Throw   /θroʊ/   Listen
verb
Throw  v. t.  (past threw; past part. thrown; pres. part. throwing)  
1.
To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
2.
To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
3.
To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
4.
(Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
5.
To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
6.
To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. "Set less than thou throwest."
7.
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. "O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw."
8.
To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. "There the snake throws her enameled skin."
9.
(Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
10.
To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. "I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth."
11.
To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; said especially of rabbits.
12.
To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
To throw away.
(a)
To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
(b)
To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
To throw back.
(a)
To retort; to cast back, as a reply.
(b)
To reject; to refuse.
(c)
To reflect, as light.
To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to neglect as useless; as, to throw by a garment.
To throw down, to subvert; to overthrow; to destroy; as, to throw down a fence or wall.
To throw in.
(a)
To inject, as a fluid.
(b)
To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment.
(c)
To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain.
To throw off.
(a)
To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease.
(b)
To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
(c)
To make a start in a hunt or race. (Eng.)
To throw on, to cast on; to load.
To throw one's self down, to lie down neglectively or suddenly.
To throw one's self on or To throw one's self upon.
(a)
To fall upon.
(b)
To resign one's self to the favor, clemency, or sustain power of (another); to repose upon.
To throw out.
(a)
To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel. "The other two, whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy their exile." "The bill was thrown out."
(b)
To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as, to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks."
(c)
To distance; to leave behind.
(d)
To cause to project; as, to throw out a pier or an abutment.
(e)
To give forth; to emit; as, an electric lamp throws out a brilliant light.
(f)
To put out; to confuse; as, a sudden question often throws out an orator.
To throw over, to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties.
To throw up.
(a)
To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission. "Experienced gamesters throw up their cards when they know that the game is in the enemy's hand."
(b)
To reject from the stomach; to vomit.
(c)
To construct hastily; as, to throw up a breastwork of earth.


Throw  v. i.  (past threw; past part. thrown; pres. part. throwing)  To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. (R.)


noun
Throw  n.  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. (Obs.)


Throw  n.  Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. (Obs.) "I will with Thomas speak a little throw."


Throw  n.  
1.
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. "He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe."
2.
A stroke; a blow. (Obs.) "Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws."
3.
The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
4.
A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
5.
An effort; a violent sally. (Obs.) "Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul."
6.
(Mach.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
7.
(Pottery) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
8.
A turner's lathe; a throwe. (Prov. Eng.)
9.
(Mining) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.





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... and red or yellow iron-heeled boots, like those of the men; but over all they throw a long blue garment, which, if not tucked up under the girdle, would depend some inches below the ankles. A large blue shawl descends below the knee. Round their heads they twist black shawls, turban-wise, or ...
— Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century • W. H. Davenport Adams
... on the roofs of the houses, and at the windows, and insulted him with opprobrious language; the slaves who were working in the streets threw filth and mud at him; even the children, incited by his enemies, had filled their pinafores with sharp stones, which they throw down before their doors as he passed, that he might be obliged to ...
— The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ • Anna Catherine Emmerich
... excited, and angry—jumped in with this outburst, it seemed all at once as if the fateful and final word of Destiny had been spoken, and as if the whole fate of Ireland, of Mr. Gladstone, of this great Ministry, and of this mighty Bill, had been definitely pledged to one throw of the dice. Imagine one of those contests which you find in the pages of Turgenieff or Tolstoi, which perchance you may have seen at Monte Carlo, which in the last few days may have been observed at Epsom Downs—in which life or death, ruin or halcyon fortune, ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor
... therefore, two unbroken chains connecting the Indians of historic times with the "veritable mound builders," and the facts which form the links of these chains throw some additional light on the history of that mysterious ...
— The Problem of Ohio Mounds • Cyrus Thomas
... It will throw additional light on this subject if I mention that, in 1858, one year after this conversation with Bro. Cox, when the Free State men had obtained control of the Territorial Legislature, Bro. Humber went to Lawrence and laid ...
— Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler • Pardee Butler


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