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n. (Mil.) a weapon that squirts ignited liquid or gelatinous fuel for several yards. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To throw wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To throw out. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Overthrew p. p. Overthrown p. pr. & vb. n. Overthrowing. ] 1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. [ 1913 Webster ]

His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy; as, to overthrow a government. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Gloucester ] that seeks to overthrow religion. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Baseball) To throw (a baseball) beyond; to throw too high and too far; to overshoot{ 1 }; as, the shortstop overthrew the first baseman. [ PJC ]

Syn. -- To demolish; overturn; prostrate; destroy; ruin; subvert; overcome; conquer; defeat; discomfit; vanquish; beat; rout. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of overthrowing; the state of being overthrown; ruin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your sudden overthrow much rueth me. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (a) (Baseball) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head. (b) (Cricket) A faulty return of the ball by a fielder, so that the striker makes an additional run. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Threw p. p. Thrown 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. &unr_; to bore, to turn, &unr_; to pierce, &unr_; 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Set less than thou throwest. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. [ 1913 Webster ]

O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. [ 1913 Webster ]

There the snake throws her enameled skin. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have thrown
A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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.” 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Throe. ] Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [ Obs. ] Spenser. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. þrāh, þrāg. ] Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will with Thomas speak a little throw. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. [ 1913 Webster ]

To throw about, to cast about; to try expedients. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. [ 1913 Webster ]

He heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw,
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stroke; a blow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. An effort; a violent sally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Your youth admires
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Pottery) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Mining) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. designed to be discarded after a single use; disposable. [ PJC ]

2. spoken with deliberate underemphasis; as, a throwaway line in a play. [ PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
Syn. -- circular, handbill, bill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. words spoken in a casual way with conscious underemphasis. [ WordNet 1.5 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. to discard. [ PJC ]

2. to waste or squander. [ PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the reappearance in an organism of characteristics of an earlier ancestral type; atavism. [ PJC ]

2. an organisms having characteristics of an earlier ancestral type. [ PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. to revert to an ancestral type or character. “A large proportion of the steerage passengers throw back to their Darwinian ancestry.” The Century. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Agric.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A turning lathe. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Throw, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Throwing engine,
Throwing mill,
Throwing table, or
Throwing wheel (Pottery), a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried by a vertical spindle; a potter's wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Anthropol.) An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the spear, toward the middle, above it with the finger and thumb, the effect being to bring the place of support nearer the center of the spear, and practically lengthen the arm in the act of throwing. In Mexico, one such device is called the atlatl. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & p. p. from Throw, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. --
Thrown singles, silk thread or cord made by three processes of twisting, first into singles, two or more of which are twisted together making dumb singles, and several of these twisted together to make thrown singles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A start in a hunt or a race. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Throw + -ster. ] One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mach.) (a) Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. (b) Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To throw up. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) See Throw, n., 9. [ 1913 Webster ]