throw 
To throw overboard. See overboard.^'Io throw the 
helve after the hatchet, see helve. To throw the 
trawL See trawl. To throw together, to combine; 
put hastily into shape. 
I could not forbear throwing together such reflections as 
occurred to me upon that subject. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 105. 
To throw tongue, to give tongue, as dogs. See under 
tongue. The Century, XXXVIII. 190. Tothrowup. (a) 
To raise or lift ; toss up : as, to throw up a window. 
(6) To erect or build rapidly ; construct : as, to throw up 
a scaffolding, (e) To give up; resign; abandon: as, to 
throw up an appointment. 
I at once threw up my hopes of military distinction, and 
retired into civil life. 
Thackeray, Fitz-Boodle's Confession. 
(d) To eject or discharge from the stomach ; vomit. 
Judge of the cause by the substances the patient throws 
up. Arbuthnot. 
To throw up the sponge. See sponge. 
II. intrung. 1. To cast or fling: as, he throws 
well at base-ball, but catches badly. 2. To 
cast dice. 
You might often see Men game in the Presence of Wo- 
men, and throw at once for more than they were worth, 
to recommend themselves as Men of Spirit. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 154. 
You throw for a large stake, but, losing, you could stake 
and throw again. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. 
In 1716, the barrow-women of London used generally to 
carry dice with them, and children were induced to throw 
for fruit and nuts, as indeed was any person of a more ad- 
vanced age. G. A. Sola, Make your Game, p. 205. 
3f. To fall ; be cast down. 
He stumbled on the thresshewolde an threwe to the erthe. 
Piers Plowman (B), v. 357. 
Throwing at cocks. Same as cock-throurimj. To throw 
about, to cast about ; try expedients. [Rare.] 
Now unto despaire I 'gin to growe, 
And meane for better winde about to throws. 
Spenser, Mother Hub. Tale, 1. 80. 
To throw back, to revert to some ancestral character; 
exhibit atavism : a breeders' term : as, a tendency in some 
animals to throw back for several generations. Darwin, 
Var. of Animals and Plants, I. 211. [Colloq.] To throw 
Off, to start in a hunt or race. [Eng.] To throw out, 
to fail to register, or print pages or colors in exact posi- 
tion : said of a worn or shackly printing-machine. To 
throw up, to vomit. 
throw 1 (thro), n. [< ftrowl, ).] 1. The act of 
throwing, flinging, or hurling; a cast, either 
from the hand or from an engine ; a fling. 
The Old Bachelour has a Throw at the Dissenting Min- 
isters. J. Collier, Short View (ed. 1698), p. 101. 
Then heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw, 
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. 
Aiiiiittmi, tr. of Ovid's Metamorph., iii. 
2. A cast of dice ; the manner in which dice 
fall when cast ; hence, risk ; venture. 
They that enter into the state of marriage cast a die of 
the greatest contingency, and yet of the greatest interest 
in the world, next to the last throw for eternity. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 707. 
Am I to set my life upon a throw 
Because a bear is rude and surly? 
Coivper, Conversation, 1. 191. 
3. In angling, the cast of a line. 
The "silver-gray," ... at the third throw, is taken the 
instant it alights on the water. 
FortniyhUy Rev., N. S., XLIII. 630. 
4f. A thrust ; a stroke ; a blow. 
Ne plate, ne male, could ward so mighty throwes. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. v. 9. 
5. The distance which a missile maybe thrown 
by the hand. 
Oh, 'tis a nice place ! a butcher hard by in the village, 
and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw. 
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, xxx. 
Rebecca and her husband were but at a few stones' throw 
of the lodgings which the invalid Miss Crawley occupied. 
Thackeray, Vanity Fair, xxv. 
6. In steam-engines, the extreme movement of 
a slide-valve, or of a crank or an eccentric, mea- 
sured on a straight line passing through the 
center of motion. Goodrich. 7. In geol. and 
mining, a fault or dislocation of the strata ; a 
leap. Of late the term throw has been more generally 
used to denote the amount of vertical displacement caused 
by a leap or fault See the quotations. [Cornwall, Eng.] 
In the Saint Agnes district, however, these traversing 
veins often contain earthy brown iron ore, and are called 
"gossans"; and here the displacement is designated a 
leap a provincial term used by Mr. Pryce (Mineral. 
Corn., p. 106), which seems to express the effect as well as 
any other I have seen. Mr. Came (Corn. Geol. Trans., ii. 
p. 119) has introduced the word throic as a synonym The 
expressions thrmv and leap are therefore equivalents, and 
slide is often used by miners in the same sense. 
Uenwood, Met. Deposits of Cornwall and Devon (1843), 
[p. 329. 
In the case of an inclined fault, the level of the selected 
stratum is protracted across the fissure until a vertical 
from it will reach the level of the same bed. The length 
of this vertical is the amount of vertical displacement or 
the throw of the fault. 
Geikie, Text-Book of Geol. (1885), p. 513. 
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8. An implement or a machine for giving to 
anything a rapid rotary motion, especially in 
the industrial arts, as a potters' wheel, a turn- 
ers' lathe. 9. In math., a complexus of four 
elements of the same elementary figure, regard 
being had to their linear order, as four points 
on a line, four lines of a plane pencil, and the 
like. Two protective throws are said to be 
equal Out Of throw. Same as out of ttinding (which 
see, under winding). 
throw-t,-and !-. An obsolete spelling of throe 1 . 
throw 3 ! (thro), 11. [Also throe; < ME. throwe, 
tln-ori; thriiice, Ihraghc, thrage,< AS. thrag,time, 
season, course. Cf . thrall.'] A space of time ; 
a moment; a while. 
I wol with Thomas speke a litel throwe. 
Chaucer, Summoner's Tale, 1. 107. 
A man shall stodye or musyn now a long throw 
Which is which. 
Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 106. 
Downe himselfe he layd 
Upon the grassy ground to sleepe a throw. 
Speller, F. Q., III. iv. 53. 
throw-back (thro'bak), n. Anything which 
acts as a setback; specifically, a person who 
or thing which causes another to seem inferior 
by contrast. [Slang.] 
She is personally a throwback to an angel. 
Atheneeum, No. 3229, p. 351. 
throw-bait (thro'bat), n. Same as toll-bait. 
throw-crank (thro'krangk), n. A crank which 
converts rotary into reciprocating motion. Ure, 
Diet., III. 25. 
throw-crook (thro'kruk), n. [< throw 1 , twist, 
+ crook.] 1. A kind of hook used for twisting 
straw ropes, etc. Also thratc-crook, thraw-cruk. 
[Scotch.] 2. A potters' wheel; a thrower or 
throwing-table. E. H. Knight. 
thrower (thro'er), n. [< throw 1 + -er 1 .] One 
who or that which throws. Specifically (a) A per- 
son who twists or winds silk ; a throwster. (6) A potter 
who fashions vessels on a throw or wheel. 
The clay then passes to the thrower, who pursues his 
work by the aid of a potter's wheel. Lancet (1889), I. 773. 
(c) A turner. See throwl, n., 1. 
throwing-balls (thro'ing-balz), n. pi. The 
South American bolas. 
throwing-clay (thro'ing-kla), n. Any clay 
which is plastic enough to be thrown or worked 
on the potters' wheel. 
At the potteries in Staffordshire they call four different 
soils of clay throwing clays, because they are of a closer 
texture, and will work on the wheel. 
Kennett, MS. Lansd. 1033, f. 414. (JlaUiwell.) 
throwing-engine (thro'iug-eu"jin), . A pot- 
ters' wheel. Compare throw 1 , c. t., 2. 
throwing-house (thro'ing-hous). n. In eeram., 
a house or shed where potters' wheels or throw- 
ing-tables are set up for use. See potter 1 and 
throwiy-taule. 
throwirig-mill (thro 'ing -mil), n. Same as 
throwing-engine. 
throwing-stick (thro'ing-stik), n. 1. A stick 
by means of which, as with a thong, a javelin is 
propelled. The chief instance of it is the Aus- 
tralian wummerah. 2. Same as throw-stick. 
throwing-table (thr6'ing-ta''bl), n. A potters' 
wheel (compare throwing-engine); also, a mod- 
ern contrivance by which a form of the potters' 
wheel is turned by machinery: said to expedite 
greatly the work of shaping ordinary vessels. 
throwing-wheel (thro'ing-hwel), . A potters' 
wheel. 
throw-lathe (thro'laTH), n. A small lathe 
which is driven by one hand, while a tool is 
held or applied by the other. 
thrown (thron), p. a. [Pp. of throw 1 .] 1. 
Twisted : as, thrown silk (which see, under silk). 
Portugal had some strong and rather coarse thrown silk, 
besides cocoons. Ure, Diet., IV. 892. 
2. Disappointed. Halliwcll. [Prov. Eng.] 3. 
In geol. and mining, moved out of its origi- 
nal position by a fault, or intersecting dike 
or vein, or fissure of any kind, whether filled 
with ore, gossan, flucan, or whether simply a 
crack. The words thrown and heaved are frequently used 
by millers as meaning the same thing, but properly the 
former has reference to the amount of vertical, tne latter 
to the horizontal, displacement caused by a fault. 
4. Turned. Compare throw 1 , v. t., 2 Thrown 
Singles. See single, 1 (a). Thrown ware, pottery ves- 
sels which have been shaped on the potters wheel, iu- 
cluding most vessels of rounded form, and of all epochs, 
except the coarsest and most barbarous. The greatest 
delicacy of form can be given to a piece in this way, as is 
instanced in the Greek vases of the best periods. 
throw-off (thro'of), ii. 1. A start in a hunt or 
race. 2. In printing, a mechanism which pre- 
vents or throws off impressions while other 
thrum 
parts of the printing-machine continue at work 
or revolving. 3. An incidental product. 
No micro-seismic shock can ever take place otherwise 
than as a throw-off from some violent disturbance more or 
less remotely located. Nature, XL. 393. 
throwster (thro'ster), n. [< ME. tliroimtiir : < 
throw 1 + -t>ter.~\ 1. A person occupied in throw- 
ing raw silk, or in producing thrown silk. 
There's rabbi Job a venerable silk-weaver, 
Jehu a throwster dwelling i' the Spital-flelds. 
Middleton and Rowley, World Tost at Tennis. 
Their engaging three hundred silk throwsters here in 
one week for New York was treated as a fable, because, 
forsooth, they have " no silk there to throw. ' 
Franklin, Autobiog., p. 352. 
2. One who throws dice ; a gambler. 
When Who's to be in? Who out? was once more the 
question on every lip, I fancied I could perceive ugly symp- 
toms of the old sores being very likely to break out again, 
in case a certain bold throwster has swept the pool. 
Nodes Ambroifiame, Sept., 1832. 
throw-stick (thro'stik), . A missile weapon, 
consisting of a short club or cudgel, designed 
to be thrown by being whirled from the hand 
instead of directly in the line of its length, as 
in the case of the iavelin. The most common form 
is that of a short club having a heavy ball at one end, usu- 
ally made of a single piece of hard wood. The boomerang 
in its different forms also belongs to this order of weapon. 
See cut under boomerang. 
thrughit, thrucht, thruht, prep. Middle English 
forms of through 1 . 
thrugh 2 t, n. A Middle English form of through^. 
thrum 1 (thrum), n. and . [Early mod. E. also 
thruml), thrumme ; < ME. thrum, thrttmm, a thrum 
(not found in AS.), = D. drom = OHG. MHG. 
drum, G. trumm (in the pi. trummer) = Icel. 
thromr (thram-) = Norw. from, tram, trumm, 
edge, brim, = Sw. dial, tromm, from, trumm, 
stump, end of a log (see tram 1 ); prob. con- 
nected with L. terminus, Gr. lippa. term, end, 
boundary: see tram 1 and term.'] I. n. 1. The 
fringe of threads which remains attached to a 
loom when the web has been cut off; also, one 
of such threads. 
If the colour holde in yarne and thrumme, it will holde 
much better in cloth. Uakluyt's Voyages, I. 432. 
You are not a man ; you are not the thrum of one. 
Scrape you all up, and we shouldn't get lint enough to put 
on Chilion's foot. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 17. 
Hence 2. Any loose thread, or a mass or tuft 
of loose filamentous material. 
All moss has here and there little stalks, besides the low 
thrum. Bacon, Nat. Hist., 637. 
A child and dead? alas! how could it come? 
Surely thy thread of life was but a thrum. 
Witts' Recreations, 1654. (Hares.) 
3. A tuft, or a collection of tufts; a fringe or 
tassel. 
And tapestries all gold'n-fring'd, and curl'd with thrumbs 
behind. Chapman, Iliad, xvi. 220. 
4. pi. Naitt., short bits of rope-yarn used for 
sewing on mats. 5. pi. Coarse yarn; waste 
yarn. 6. A ragged rocky headland swept by 
the sea. Also thrum-cap. [Nova Scotia.] 
Thread and thrum. See thread. 
II. a. Made of thrums, or waste yarn : as, a 
thrum cap or hat. 
A pudding-wife, or a witch with a thrum cap. 
Massinger, Renegado, i. 3. 
thrum 1 (thrum), v. t. ; pret. and pp. thrummed, 
ppr. thrumming. [Early mod. E. also thrumb, 
thrumme; < thrum 1 , .] 1. To make of or 
cover with thrums, or appendages resembling 
thrums. 
The flower [of Scabiosa] is like a Blewe or white thrum- 
med hatte, the stalk rough, the vpper leaues ragged, and 
the leaues next the grose rootes be plainer. 
Bailees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 225. 
There 's her thrummed hat and her muffler too. 
Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 80. 
In Persia you shall nude carpets of course thrummed 
wooll. Uakluyt's Voyages, I. 432. 
Are we born to thrum caps or pick straws? Quarleg. 
Brave Thespian maidens, at whose charming layes 
Each moss-f hrumb'd mountain bends, each current playes. 
W. Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 1. 
2f. To thatch. 
Would 'st thou, a pretty, beautiful, juicy squall, live in 
a poor thrummed house i' th' country ? 
iliddleton, Michaelmas Term, i. 2. 
Thrummed mat (naut.), a mat or piece of canvas with 
short strands of yarn stuck through it, in order to make a 
rough surface. It is used in a vessel's rigging about any 
part, to prevent chafing. 
thrum 2 (thrum), v. ; pret. and pp. tJinimmrd, 
ppr. thriiiiiiiiiHi/. [< Icel. tlinima, rattle, thun- 
der (cf. thruma, a clap of thunder; tliri/mr. 
alarm, noise), = Sw. trummtt = Pan. tromme, 
beat, drum: Bee drum and frttmpl.] I. intrant: 
1 . To play with the fingers on a stringed instru- 
