Definition of throw

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Throw (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a)..

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Illuminative :: Illuminative (a.) Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative.
Weaving :: Weaving (n.) An incessant motion of a horse's head, neck, and body, from side to side, fancied to resemble the motion of a hand weaver in throwing the shuttle..
Chivy :: Chivy (v. t.) To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch..
Unshut :: Unshut (v. t.) To open, or throw open..
Eruption :: Eruption (n.) The act of breaking out or bursting forth; as: (a) A violent throwing out of flames, lava, etc., as from a volcano of a fissure in the earth's crust. (b) A sudden and overwhelming hostile movement of armed men from one country to another. Milton. (c) A violent commotion..
Snowball :: Snowball (v. i.) To throw snowballs.
Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..
Overthrow :: Overthrow (n.) The act of throwing a ball too high, as over a player's head..
Ob- :: Ob- () A prefix signifying to, toward, before, against, reversely, etc.; also, as a simple intensive; as in oblige, to bind to; obstacle, something standing before; object, lit., to throw against; obovate, reversely, ovate. Ob- is commonly assimilated before c, f, g, and p, to oc-, of-, og-, and op-..
Nill :: Nill (n.) Shining sparks thrown off from melted brass.
Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened..
Hip :: Hip (v. t.) To throw (one's adversary) over one's hip in wrestling (technically called cross buttock).
Falcade :: Falcade (n.) The action of a horse, when he throws himself on his haunches two or three times, bending himself, as it were, in very quick curvets..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw off; to eject; to shed; to lose.
Upcast :: Upcast (n.) A cast; a throw.
Prostrate :: Prostrate (v. t.) To throw down, or cause to fall in humility or adoration; to cause to bow in humble reverence; used reflexively; as, he prostrated himself..
Shine :: Shine (v. t.) To make bright; to cause to shine by reflected light; as, in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them..
Attack :: Attack (v. t.) To assail with unfriendly speech or writing; to begin a controversy with; to attempt to overthrow or bring into disrepute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet..
Symbol :: Symbol (n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty..
Shot :: Shot (n.) The flight of a missile, or the distance which it is, or can be, thrown; as, the vessel was distant more than a cannon shot..
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