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thrown |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Throw \Throw\, v. t. [imp. {Threw} (thr[udd]); p. p. {Thrown} (thr[=o]n); p. pr & vb n. {Throwing}.] [OE. [thorn]rowen, [thorn]rawen, to throw, to twist, AS [thorn]r[=a]wan to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen G. drehen OHG. dr[=a]jan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr ? to bore, to turn, ? to pierce, ? 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. 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. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as he threw a detachment of his army across the river. 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 --Shak. 7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly. O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. --Pope. 8. To divest or strip one's self of to put off There the snake throws her enameled skin. --Shak. 9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels. 10. To give forcible utterance to to cast; to vent. I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. --Shak. 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. --Tomlinson. {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.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrown \Thrown\, a. & p. p. from {Throw}, v. {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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: thrown adj 1: caused to fall to the ground; "the thrown rider got back on his horse"; "a thrown wrestler"; "a ball player thrown for a loss" 2: (archaic) twisted together; as of filaments spun into a thread; "thrown silk is raw silk that has been twisted and doubled into yarn" [syn: {thrown and twisted}]
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