Definition of throw

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Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..

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Columbiad :: Columbiad (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation..
Squiralty :: Souir (v. t.) To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.
Ditch :: Ditch (v. t.) To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side..
Ejaculate :: Ejaculate (v. t.) To throw out suddenly and swiftly, as if a dart; to dart; to eject..
Regurgitate :: Regurgitate (v. t.) To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity..
Loggat :: Loggat (n.) An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground..
Fall :: Fall (n.) Downfall; degradation; loss of greatness or office; termination of greatness, power, or dominion; ruin; overthrow; as, the fall of the Roman empire..
Unbalanced :: Unbalanced (a.) Being, or being thrown, out of equilibrium; hence, disordered or deranged in sense; unsteady; unsound; as, an unbalanced mind..
Grizzly :: Grizzly (a.) In hydraulic mining, gratings used to catch and throw out large stones from the sluices..
Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..
Novum :: Novum (n.) A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five), the two principal throws being nine and five..
Subversionary :: Subversion (n.) The act of overturning, or the state of being overturned; entire overthrow; an overthrow from the foundation; utter ruin; destruction; as, the subversion of a government; the subversion of despotic power; the subversion of the constitution..
Projection :: Projection (n.) The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each..
Traject :: Traject (v. t.) To throw or cast through, over, or across; as, to traject the sun's light through three or more cross prisms..
Prester :: Prester (n.) A meteor or exhalation formerly supposed to be thrown from the clouds with such violence that by collision it is set on fire.
Spall :: Spall (v. i.) To give off spalls, or wedge-shaped chips; -- said of stone, as when badly set, with the weight thrown too much on the outer surface..
Disoccident :: Disoccident (v. t.) To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude.
Shed :: Shed (v. t.) To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves..
Derange :: Derange (v. t.) To put out of place, order, or rank; to disturb the proper arrangement or order of; to throw into disorder, confusion, or embarrassment; to disorder; to disarrange; as, to derange the plans of a commander, or the affairs of a nation..
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) To overthrow by a contrary decision; to make void; to under or annual for error; as, to reverse a judgment, sentence, or decree..
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