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Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. |
n. |
Throw |
Time; while; space of time; moment; trice. |
n. |
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To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl. |
v. t. |
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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. |
v. t. |
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To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock. |
v. t. |
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To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river. |
v. t. |
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To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist. |
v. t. |
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To cast, as dice; to venture at dice. |
v. t. |
Throw |
To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. |
v. t. |
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To divest or strip one's self of; to put off. |
v. t. |
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To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. |
v. t. |
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To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent. |
v. t. |
Throw |
To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits. |
v. t. |
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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. |
v. t. |
Throw |
To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice. |
v. i. |
Throw |
The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast. |
n. |
Throw |
A stroke; a blow. |
n. |
Throw |
The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw. |
n. |
Throw |
A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw. |
n. |
Throw |
An effort; a violent sally. |
n. |