Throw , v. i. -- To throw back, to revert to
an ancestral type or character. "A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw
back to their Darwinian ancestry." The Century.
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.
Addison.
2. A stroke; a blow. [Obs.]
Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.
Spenser.
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.
Addison.
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.
Throw (?), v. i. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try
expedients. [R.]
Throw , v. t. [imp.
Threw (thr&udd;); p. p. Thrown (thrōn);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Throwing.]
[OE. þrowen, þrawen, to throw, to twist, AS. þrāwan to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen, G. drehen, OHG. drājan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr. &?; to bore, to turn, &?; to pierce, &?; a hole. Cf. Thread, Trite, Turn,
v. t.]
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.
Shak.
7. To put
on hastily; to spread carelessly.
O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw.
Pope. 8. To divest or
strip one's
self of; to
put off.
There the snake throws her enameled skin.
Shak. 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.
Shak.
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. Tomlinson.
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 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." Swift. "The bill was
thrown out." Swift. (b)
To utter; to give utterance to; to speak; as,
to throw out insinuation or observation. "She throws out thrilling shrieks." Spenser. (c) To distance; to leave behind.
Addison. (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."
Addison. (b) To reject from the stomach; to vomit. (c)
To construct hastily; as, to throw up
a breastwork of earth.
Throw , n. [AS. þrāh, þrāg.]
Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. [Obs.]
Shak.
I will with Thomas speak a little throw.
Chaucer.
Throw (thrō), n.
[See Throe.]
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [Obs.]
Spenser. Dryden.
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