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Throw
THROW, v.t. pret. threw; pp. thrown. [Gr. to run; L. trochilus.]
1. Properly, to hurl; to whirl; to fling or cast in a winding direction.
2. To fling or cast in any manner; to propel; to send; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine. Thus we throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a bomb throws a shell. The Roman balista threw various weapons. A fire engine throws water to extinguish flames.
3. To wind; as, to throw silk.
4. To turn; as, to throw balls in a lathe.
[Not in general use.]
5. To venture at dice.
Set less than thou throwest.
6. To cast; to divest or strip one's self of; to put off; as, a serpent throws his skin.
7. To cast; to send.
I have thrown
A brave defiance in king Henry's teeth.
8. To put on; to spread carelessly.
O'er his fair limbs a flow'ry vest he threw.
9. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
10. To cast; to drive by violence; as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
To throw away, to lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
1. To bestow without a compensation.
2. To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
To throw by, to lay aside or 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.
1. To bring down from a high station; to depress.
To throw in, to inject.
1. To put in; to deposit with others; also, to give up or relinquish.
To throw off, to expel; to clear from; as, to throw off a disease.
1. To reject; to discard; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
To throw on, to cast on; to load.
To throw out, to cast out; to reject or discard; to expel.
1. To utter carelessly; to speak; as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
2. To exert; to bring forth into act.
She throws out thrilling shrieks.
3. To distance; to leave behind.
4. To exclude; to reject. The bill was thrown out on the second reading.
To throw up, to resign; as, to throw up a commission.
1. To resign angrily.
Bad games are thrown up too soon.
2. To discharge from the stomach.
To throw one's self down, to lie down.
To throw one's self on, to resign one's self to the favor, clemency or sustaining power of another; to repose.
THROW, v.i. To perform the act of throwing.
1. To cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. [Not much used.]
THROW, n. The act of hurling or flinging; a cast; a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.
He heav'd a stone, and rising to the throw,
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.
1. A cast of dice; and the manner in which dice fall when cast; as a good throw. None but a fool hazards all upon one throw.
2. The distance which a missile is or may be thrown; as a stone's throw.
3. A stroke; a blow.
Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.
4. Effort; violent sally.
Your youth admires
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.
5. The agony of travail. [See Throe.]
6. A turner's lathe. [Local.]
throw appears in definitions for these words:
Abase Abject Accend Adject Amplitude Anacathartic Apostasy Approach Arbalist Arcubalist Argonauta Assert Authentic Average Avoid Away Backwards Bail Balearic Balister Ball Ballistic Ballistics Bandoleers Bank Battery Bear Beat Bedash Belch Belemnite Bespurt Bing Blanching Bless Blow Blurt Boil Bolis Bolt Bomb Bombard Bombardment Bombilation Bow Break Breast-work Broad-cast Bub Butter Cannon Cannon-ball Cannon-shot Cannonade Cant Canting Carcass Careless Carmelin Cartridge-box Cast Castaway Caster Casting Catapelt Catapult Caterpillar Chance-medley Chant Charge Cherry-pit Chuck Circumvallation Clasp Cleromancy Clip Collation Combustibility Commit Computation Compute Concoction Confound Confuse Conject Conjector Conjecture Conspire Consternation Contraction Contravallation Cook Corvus Cost Costal Cough Cube Cumulate Cuttle-fish Dab Dabble Dart Darted Darter Darting Dash Deal Dealing Decant Declare Dedicate Deject Demolish Demolished Demolisher Demolishing Depose Deposit Deposition Derange Derelict Design Despond Despumation Detest Dibstone Dice-box Die Digger Dike Disaffect Disarray Disarraying Disburden Disburdening Discard Discarded Discarding Discharge Discharged Discharging Disclusion Discumber Discus Disgorge Disgorged Dismantle Dismount Dismounted Dismounting Disorbed Disorder Disorganizing Dispark Disrank Dissertation Dissipate Distance Distill Distillation Distilled Distract Dog Down Dribble Drizzled Dross Duck Dungfork Earth Ebullition Egest Ejaculate Ejaculation Ejaculatory Eject Ejected Elance Elegy Eliminate Eliminated Eliminating Elimination Elucidation Embolism Embroil Emission Emit Enclitic Enclitically Engine Engulf Enjoin Enravish Enravishing Evacuate Evolve Exclusion Excrete Excretion Excretory Exculpate Excuse Exert Expectorating Expel Expire Expose Extraversion Extrusion Fairy Falcade Fan Field-works Fire-engine Fireball Flash Flaunt Fling Flinging Flirt Flirted Flirting Flounce Flutter Fluttering Fly Foal Foam Fodient Fold Frippery Froth Fulminate Fume Fund Furnace Gag Gammon Gaunt Gelatin Give Glance Gleam Glove Grenade Grub Gulp Gymnastic Halleluiah Hand-grenade Harpoon Harpooner Hazard Heap Heave Heaving Hell High-flaming Hiss Hobit Howitz Huddle Huddling Hurl Hurled Hurling Hyperbaton Hyperbole Ill Illuminate Illumine Immolate Impute Inflict Ingest Ingestion Inject Injected Injecting Injection Interject Interjected Interjecting Interjection Interjectional Intersert Intrenchment Inveigh Jack Jaculation Jaculatory Jakes Jerk Jet Jetsam Jettison Jumble Lade Lading Ladle Lance Lanch Landau Lash Lava Lave Lay Lead Lie Light Lodge Loll Lolling Lose Lot Luff Lull Lumber Lump Lumping Main Makeweight Mangonel Matter Measuring Mention Meteor Minute Missile Missive Mole-hill Mortar Mound Naphtha Nick Nine-pins Nuisance Nusance Ob Object-glass Obtrude Offal Organzine Outcast Outthrow Overset Overshadow Overshadower Overshadowing Overthrow Overturn Pain Pall Palpitate Parable Pelt Pelted Pelting Perdulous Pet Pile Pillar Pitch Pitched Pitchfork Pitching Pledge Plunge Pour Poured Power Precipitate Precipitated Precipitating Precipitation Prester Problem Project Projectile Projecting Projection Prostrate Prostrated Prostrating Prostration Puke Put Quake Quoit Raffle Raffling Rally Random Ratio Reabsorb Reabsorption Rebelliously Recast Redundance Ree Reflect Reflected Reflectible Reflecting Reflection Reflective Reflexible Refuse Regorge Regurgitate Regurgitated Regurgitating Reject Rejectamenta Rejected Rejecting Rejection Rejectment Restore Retort Retorted Retorting Ridge Roast Rough Round Rout Ruffle Sagittal Sandal-wood Sandiver Scarf Scatter Scene Scoff Scoria Scuffle Sedition Send Shaggy Shake Shambles Shed Shedding Shovel Shoveled Shoveling Shuffle Shuffling Sill Sit Sling Slinging Slip Slop Smack Smite Smoke Sort Sounding Spar Sparkle Spatter Spawl Spawling Spawn Spear Spell Spet Spill Spire Spit Splash Spot Spout Spouted Spouting Sprit Sprue Spurt Sputter Sputtered Squib Squibbing Squir Squirt Stake Stall Stick Still Stones-cast Stones-throw Stow Strike Summerset Surprise Swage Swath Sweating Symbol Tackle Tactics Teller Threw Throw Thrower Thrown Tip Toss Tossed Tossing Traject Traverse Trench Tuf Tumble Tumbled Turn Turnpike Unbuild Unburdened Unhorse Unhorsed Unhorsing Unlucky Unravel Unrouted Unscattered Unseat Unseated Unshape Upcast Uproar Upturn Voice Volley Vomit Vomiting Wage Wager Warp Waste Wave Well-room Wheel Whelm Whiff Whip Whirring Wholesale Wicked Word Wreak Wrestle Wrestling Yerk
Abase Abject Accend Adject Amplitude Anacathartic Apostasy Approach Arbalist Arcubalist Argonauta Assert Authentic Average Avoid Away Backwards Bail Balearic Balister Ball Ballistic Ballistics Bandoleers Bank Battery Bear Beat Bedash Belch Belemnite Bespurt Bing Blanching Bless Blow Blurt Boil Bolis Bolt Bomb Bombard Bombardment Bombilation Bow Break Breast-work Broad-cast Bub Butter Cannon Cannon-ball Cannon-shot Cannonade Cant Canting Carcass Careless Carmelin Cartridge-box Cast Castaway Caster Casting Catapelt Catapult Caterpillar Chance-medley Chant Charge Cherry-pit Chuck Circumvallation Clasp Cleromancy Clip Collation Combustibility Commit Computation Compute Concoction Confound Confuse Conject Conjector Conjecture Conspire Consternation Contraction Contravallation Cook Corvus Cost Costal Cough Cube Cumulate Cuttle-fish Dab Dabble Dart Darted Darter Darting Dash Deal Dealing Decant Declare Dedicate Deject Demolish Demolished Demolisher Demolishing Depose Deposit Deposition Derange Derelict Design Despond Despumation Detest Dibstone Dice-box Die Digger Dike Disaffect Disarray Disarraying Disburden Disburdening Discard Discarded Discarding Discharge Discharged Discharging Disclusion Discumber Discus Disgorge Disgorged Dismantle Dismount Dismounted Dismounting Disorbed Disorder Disorganizing Dispark Disrank Dissertation Dissipate Distance Distill Distillation Distilled Distract Dog Down Dribble Drizzled Dross Duck Dungfork Earth Ebullition Egest Ejaculate Ejaculation Ejaculatory Eject Ejected Elance Elegy Eliminate Eliminated Eliminating Elimination Elucidation Embolism Embroil Emission Emit Enclitic Enclitically Engine Engulf Enjoin Enravish Enravishing Evacuate Evolve Exclusion Excrete Excretion Excretory Exculpate Excuse Exert Expectorating Expel Expire Expose Extraversion Extrusion Fairy Falcade Fan Field-works Fire-engine Fireball Flash Flaunt Fling Flinging Flirt Flirted Flirting Flounce Flutter Fluttering Fly Foal Foam Fodient Fold Frippery Froth Fulminate Fume Fund Furnace Gag Gammon Gaunt Gelatin Give Glance Gleam Glove Grenade Grub Gulp Gymnastic Halleluiah Hand-grenade Harpoon Harpooner Hazard Heap Heave Heaving Hell High-flaming Hiss Hobit Howitz Huddle Huddling Hurl Hurled Hurling Hyperbaton Hyperbole Ill Illuminate Illumine Immolate Impute Inflict Ingest Ingestion Inject Injected Injecting Injection Interject Interjected Interjecting Interjection Interjectional Intersert Intrenchment Inveigh Jack Jaculation Jaculatory Jakes Jerk Jet Jetsam Jettison Jumble Lade Lading Ladle Lance Lanch Landau Lash Lava Lave Lay Lead Lie Light Lodge Loll Lolling Lose Lot Luff Lull Lumber Lump Lumping Main Makeweight Mangonel Matter Measuring Mention Meteor Minute Missile Missive Mole-hill Mortar Mound Naphtha Nick Nine-pins Nuisance Nusance Ob Object-glass Obtrude Offal Organzine Outcast Outthrow Overset Overshadow Overshadower Overshadowing Overthrow Overturn Pain Pall Palpitate Parable Pelt Pelted Pelting Perdulous Pet Pile Pillar Pitch Pitched Pitchfork Pitching Pledge Plunge Pour Poured Power Precipitate Precipitated Precipitating Precipitation Prester Problem Project Projectile Projecting Projection Prostrate Prostrated Prostrating Prostration Puke Put Quake Quoit Raffle Raffling Rally Random Ratio Reabsorb Reabsorption Rebelliously Recast Redundance Ree Reflect Reflected Reflectible Reflecting Reflection Reflective Reflexible Refuse Regorge Regurgitate Regurgitated Regurgitating Reject Rejectamenta Rejected Rejecting Rejection Rejectment Restore Retort Retorted Retorting Ridge Roast Rough Round Rout Ruffle Sagittal Sandal-wood Sandiver Scarf Scatter Scene Scoff Scoria Scuffle Sedition Send Shaggy Shake Shambles Shed Shedding Shovel Shoveled Shoveling Shuffle Shuffling Sill Sit Sling Slinging Slip Slop Smack Smite Smoke Sort Sounding Spar Sparkle Spatter Spawl Spawling Spawn Spear Spell Spet Spill Spire Spit Splash Spot Spout Spouted Spouting Sprit Sprue Spurt Sputter Sputtered Squib Squibbing Squir Squirt Stake Stall Stick Still Stones-cast Stones-throw Stow Strike Summerset Surprise Swage Swath Sweating Symbol Tackle Tactics Teller Threw Throw Thrower Thrown Tip Toss Tossed Tossing Traject Traverse Trench Tuf Tumble Tumbled Turn Turnpike Unbuild Unburdened Unhorse Unhorsed Unhorsing Unlucky Unravel Unrouted Unscattered Unseat Unseated Unshape Upcast Uproar Upturn Voice Volley Vomit Vomiting Wage Wager Warp Waste Wave Well-room Wheel Whelm Whiff Whip Whirring Wholesale Wicked Word Wreak Wrestle Wrestling Yerk
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