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wrestle with this angel, but throw him too, and win so com¬ 
plete a victory over his conscience, that all these considera¬ 
tions shall be able to strike no terrour into his mind, he is too 
strong for grace. South. —To drive; to send by force. 
Myself distrest, an exile, and unknown, 
Debarr’d from Europe, and from Asia thrown, 
In Libyan desarts wander thus alone. Dry den. 
To make to act at a distance. 
Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, 
Even till we maketh’ aerial blue 
An indistinct regard. Shahspearc. 
To repose.—In time of temptation be not busy to dispute, 
but rely upon the conclusion, and throw yourself upon God, 
and contend not with him but in prayer. Bp. Taylor .—To 
change by any kind of violence.—A new title, or an unsus¬ 
pected success, throws us out of ourselves, and in a manner 
destroys our identity. Addison .—To turn, [tornare, Lat.] 
As, balls thrown in a lathe. Ainsworth. 
To Throw away. To lose; to spend in vain. 
The next in place and punishment are they 
Who prodigally throw their souls away. 
Fools who, repining at their wretched state, 
And loathing anxious life, suborn’d their fate. Dry den. 
To Throw away. To reject.—He that will throw away 
a good book because not gilded, is more curious to please lhs 
eye than understanding. Bp. Taylor. 
To Throw by. To reject; to lay aside as of no use. 
It can but shew 
Like one of Juno's disguises; and 
When things succeed, be thrown by, or let fall. B. Jonson. 
To Throw down. To subvert; to overturn. 
Must one rash word, the infirmity of age. 
Throw down the merit of my better years; 
This the reward of a whole life of service. Addison. 
To Throw off. To expel. 
To Throw off. To reject; to discard: as to throw off 
an acquaintance. 
’Twould be better 
Could you provoke him to give you th’ occasion, 
And then to throw him off. Dryden. 
To Throw out. To exert; to bring forth into act.— 
She throws out thrilling shrieks and shrieking cries. Spenser. 
To Throw out. To distance ; to leave behind. 
When e’er did Juba, or did Portius, show 
A virtue that has cast me at a distance. 
And thrown me out in the pursuits of honour. Addison. 
To Throw out. To eject; to expel.—The other two 
whom they had thrown out, they were content should enjoy 
their exile. Swift. 
To Throw out. To reject; to exclude.—The oddness 
of the proposition taught others to reflect a little; and the 
bill was thrown out. Swift. 
To Throw up. To resign angrily. 
Bad games are thrown up too soon, 
Until they’re never to be won. Hudibras. 
To Throw up. To emit; to eject; to bring up.—Judge 
of the cause by the substances the patient throws up. Ar- 
buthnot .—This is one of the words which is used with great 
latitude; but -in all its uses, whether literal or figurative, it 
retains from its primitive meaning some notion of haste or 
violence. 
To Throw, v. n. To perform the act of casting. To 
cast dice. 
To Throw about. To cast about; to try expedients. 
Now unto despair, I ’gin to grow, 
And mean for better wind about to throw. Spenser. 
THROW, s. A cast; the act of casting or throwing. 
He heav’d a stone, and rising to the throw. 
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe; 
Yol. XXIII. No. 1621. 
A tower assaulted by so rude a stroke. 
With all its lofty battlements had shook. Addison. 
A cast of dice; the manner in which the dice fall when 
they are cast. 
If Hercules and Lichas play at dice 
Which is the better man, the greater throw 
May turn by fortune from the weaker hand; 
So is Alcides beaten by his page. Shakspeare. 
The space to which any thing is thrown. 
Like to a bowl upon a subtle ground 
I’ve tumbled past the throw, and in his praise 
Have almost stamp’d the leasing. Shalcspeare. 
A short space of time; a little while. [Spall, Sax.]— 
They danced but a little throw. Chaucer. 
Down himself he lav’d 
Upon the grassy ground to sleepe a throw. Spenser. 
Stroke; blow. 
So fierce he laid about him, and dealt blows 
On either side, that neither mail could hold, 
Ne shield defend the thunder of his throws. Spenser, 
Effort; violent sally. 
Your youth admires 
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul; 
Cato’s bold flights, the extravagance of virtue. Addison. 
The agony of child-birth : in this sense it is written throe. 
See Throe. 
But when the mother’s throws begin to come, 
The creature, pent within the narrow room, 
Breaks his blind prison. Dryden. 
THRO'WER, s. One that throws. 
Fate, against thy better disposition. 
Hath made thy person for the thrower out 
Of my poor babe. Shakspeare. 
A throwster; which see, 
THROWLEY, a parish of England, in Kent; 4 miles 
south-west-by-south of Feversham. 
T-ROWLEY, a parish of England, in Devonshire; 6J 
miles east-south-east of Oakhampton. 
THROWLEY, a township of England, in Staffordshire, 
near Waterfall, where the river Manifold receives the Hanse 
out of the ground. 
THROWSTER, s. One whose business is to prepare 
silk for the weaver, by cleansing and twisting it.— Throw¬ 
sters is written throwers in the charter of incorporation of 
the silk throwsters. Pegge. 
THROXENBY, or Thristonby, a hamlet of England, 
North Riding of Yorkshire; 24 miles west of Scar¬ 
borough. 
THRUM, s. [thraum , Icelandic, the ends of any thing; 
thrommes, Norm. Fr. thrums of woollen yarn.] The ends 
of weavers’ threads.—Any coarse yarn. 
O fates, come, come. 
Cut thread and thrum. 
Quail, crush, conclude and quell. Shakspeare. 
To Thrum, v. a. To weave; to knot; to twist; to 
fringe.—There’s her thrumm'd hat and her muffler too. 
Shakspeare. 
To THRUM, v. a. [probably from To drum, which is 
used in the sense of to tinkle.] To grate; to piay coarsely 
—Blunderbusses planted in every loop hole, go off constantly 
at the squeaking of a fiddle and the thrumming of a guitar. 
Dryden. 
THRUM CAP ISLAND, a small circular island in the 
South Pacific ocean, not more than one mile in circumfer¬ 
ence. Lat. 18. 35. S. long. 139. 48. W. 
THRUMPTON, a township of England, in Nottingham¬ 
shire; 7 miles south-west of Nottingham. 
THRUPP, a village of England, in Oxfordshire; 2 miles 
north of Great Faringdon. 
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