Throw /(thrō)/

Throw

n.
  1. Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. [Obs.]

Throw

n.
  1. Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. [Obs.]
    I will with Thomas speak a little throw.

Throw

v. t.

imp. Threw; p. p. Thrown; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. (Mil.)
  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. To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. (Pottery)
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
To throw away
To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
To throw back
To retort; to cast back, as a reply.
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
To inject, as a fluid.
To throw off
To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease.
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
To fall upon.
To throw out
To cast out; to reject or discard; to expel.
To throw over
to abandon the cause of; to desert; to discard; as, to throw over a friend in difficulties.
To throw up
To resign; to give up; to demit; as, to throw up a commission.

Throw

v. i.
  1. To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.

Phrases & Compounds
To throw about
to cast about; to try expedients.

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. 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. (Mach.)
  7. A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a). (Pottery)
  8. A turner's lathe; a throwe. [Prov. Eng.]
  9. The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow. (Mining)