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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Fling \Fling\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flung}; p. pr & vb n. {Flinging}.] [OE. flingen, flengen to rush, hurl; cf Icel. flengia to whip, ride furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw fl["a]nga to romp, Dan. flenge to slash.] 1. To cast, send to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart; to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as to fing a stone into the pond. 'T is Fate that flings the dice: and as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings. --Dryden. He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. --Dryden. I know thy generous temper well Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it It straight takes fire. --Addison. 2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter. The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. --Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. --Pope. 3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down to prostrate; hence to baffle; to defeat; as to fling a party in litigation. His horse started, flung him and fell upon him --Walpole.
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