Definition of throw

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Throw (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow..

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Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist..
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets..
Squiralty :: Souir (v. t.) To throw with a jerk; to throw edge foremost.
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) The act of throwing or casting; a cast; a pitch; as, wild pitching in baseball..
Ignore :: Ignore (v. t.) To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of a bill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.
Ythrowe :: Ythrowe () p. p. of Throw.
Ree :: Ree (v. t.) To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off.
Splash :: Splash (n.) Water, or water and dirt, thrown upon anything, or thrown from a puddle or the like; also, a spot or daub, as of matter which wets or disfigures..
Fling :: Fling (n.) A cast from the hand; a throw; also, a flounce; a kick; as, the fling of a horse..
Swilled :: Swig (v. t.) To pull upon (a tackle) by throwing the weight of the body upon the fall between the block and a cleat.
Calenture :: Calenture (n.) A name formerly given to various fevers occuring in tropics; esp. to a form of furious delirium accompanied by fever, among sailors, which sometimes led the affected person to imagine the sea to be a green field, and to throw himself into it..
Cirripedia :: Cirripedia (n. pl.) An order of Crustacea including the barnacles. When adult, they have a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa..
Argue :: Argue (v. i.) To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason..
Dispark :: Dispark (v. t.) To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common.
Cockshy :: Cockshy (n.) A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in shying or throwing cudgels at live cocks..
Skew :: Skew (adv.) To throw or hurl obliquely.
Throw :: Throw (v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice..
Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head..
Tumble :: Tumble (v. i.) To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses..
Disgorge :: Disgorge (v. t.) To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place..
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