Throwing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Throw
Throw (v. t.) To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.
Throw (v. t.) To fling or cast in any manner; to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine; to propel; to send; as, to throw stones or dust with the hand; a cannon throws a ball; a fire engine throws a stream of water to extinguish flames.
Throw (v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
Throw (v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
Throw (v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
Throw (v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
Throw (v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
Throw (v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
Throw (v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
Throw (v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
Throw (v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; -- said especially of rabbits.
Throw (v. t.) To twist two or more filaments of, as silk, so as to form one thread; to twist together, as singles, in a direction contrary to the twist of the singles themselves; -- sometimes applied to the whole class of operations by which silk is prepared for the weaver.
Throw (v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
Throw (n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
Throw (n.) A stroke; a blow.
Throw (n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
Throw (n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
Throw (n.) An effort; a violent sally.
Throw (n.) The extreme movement given to a sliding or vibrating reciprocating piece by a cam, crank, eccentric, or the like; travel; stroke; as, the throw of a slide valve. Also, frequently, the length of the radius of a crank, or the eccentricity of an eccentric; as, the throw of the crank of a steam engine is equal to half the stroke of the piston.
Throw (n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
Throw (n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
Throw (n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; -- according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
Throwe (n.) A turning lathe.
Thrower (n.) One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
Throwing () a. & n. from Throw, v.
Thrown () a. & p. p. from Throw, v.
Throw-off (n.) A start in a hunt or a race.
Throwster (n.) One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
Thru (prep., adv. & a.) Through.
Thrum (n.) One of the ends of weaver's threads; hence, any soft, short threads or tufts resembling these.
Thrum (n.) Any coarse yarn; an unraveled strand of rope.
Thrum (n.) A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen.
Thrum (n.) A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam.
Thrum (n.) A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn.
Thrummed (imp. & p. p.) of Thrum
Thrumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrum
Thrum (v. t.) To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe.
Thrum (v. t.) To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in; as, to thrum a piece of canvas, or a mat, thus making a rough or tufted surface.
Thrum (v. i.) To play rudely or monotonously on a stringed instrument with the fingers; to strum.
Thrum (v. i.) Hence, to make a monotonous drumming noise; as, to thrum on a table.
Thrum (v. t.) To play, as a stringed instrument, in a rude or monotonous manner.
Thrum (v. t.) Hence, to drum on; to strike in a monotonous manner; to thrum the table.
Thrum-eyed (a.) Having the anthers raised above the stigma, and visible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.
Thrummy (a.) Like thrums; made of, furnished with, or characterized by, thrums.
Thrumwort (n.) A kind of amaranth (Amarantus caudatus).
Thruout () Throughout.
Thrush (n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
Thrush (n.) Any one of numerous species of singing birds more or less resembling the true thrushes in appearance or habits; as the thunderbird and the American brown thrush (or thrasher). See Brown thrush.
Thrush (n.) An affection of the mouth, fauces, etc., common in newly born children, characterized by minute ulcers called aphthae. See Aphthae.
Thrush (n.) An inflammatory and suppurative affection of the feet in certain animals. In the horse it is in the frog.
Thrushel (n.) The song thrush.
Thrusher (n.) The song thrush.
Thrust (n. & v.) Thrist.
Thrust (imp. & p. p.) of Thrust
Thrusting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thrust
Thrust (v. t.) To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as, to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument.
Thrust (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through.
Thrust (v. i.) To make a push; to attack with a pointed weapon; as, a fencer thrusts at his antagonist.
Thrust (v. i.) To enter by pushing; to squeeze in.
Thrust (v. i.) To push forward; to come with force; to press on; to intrude.
Thrust (n.) A violent push or driving, as with a pointed weapon moved in the direction of its length, or with the hand or foot, or with any instrument; a stab; -- a word much used as a term of fencing.
Thrust (n.) An attack; an assault.
Thrust (n.) The force or pressure of one part of a construction against other parts; especially (Arch.), a horizontal or diagonal outward pressure, as of an arch against its abutments, or of rafters against the wall which support them.
Thrust (n.) The breaking down of the roof of a gallery under its superincumbent weight.
Thruster (n.) One who thrusts or stabs.
Thrusting (n.) The act of pushing with force.
Thrusting (n.) The act of squeezing curd with the hand, to expel the whey.
Thrusting (n.) The white whey, or that which is last pressed out of the curd by the hand, and of which butter is sometimes made.
Thrustle (n.) The throstle, or song thrust.
Thryes (a.) Thrice.
Thryfallow (v. t.) To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow.
Thud (n.) A dull sound without resonance, like that produced by striking with, or striking against, some comparatively soft substance; also, the stroke or blow producing such sound; as, the thrud of a cannon ball striking the earth.
Thug (n.) One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
Thuggee (n.) The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.
Thuggery (n.) Alt. of Thuggism
Thuggism (n.) Thuggee.
Thuja (n.) A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
Thule (n.) The name given by ancient geographers to the northernmost part of the habitable world. According to some, this land was Norway, according to others, Iceland, or more probably Mainland, the largest of the Shetland islands; hence, the Latin phrase ultima Thule, farthest Thule.
Thulia (n.) Oxide of thulium.
Thulium (n.) A rare metallic element of uncertain properties and identity, said to have been found in the mineral gadolinite.
Thumb (n.) The short, thick first digit of the human hand, differing from the other fingers in having but two phalanges; the pollex. See Pollex.
Thumbed (imp. & p. p.) of Thumb
Thumbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Thumb
Thumb (v. t.) To handle awkwardly.
Thumb (v. t.) To play with the thumbs, or with the thumbs and fingers; as, to thumb over a tune.
Thumb (v. t.) To soil or wear with the thumb or the fingers; to soil, or wear out, by frequent handling; also, to cover with the thumb; as, to thumb the touch-hole of a cannon.
Thumb (v. i.) To play with the thumb or thumbs; to play clumsily; to thrum.
Thumbbird (n.) The goldcrest.
Thumbed (a.) Having thumbs.
Thumbed (a.) Soiled by handling.
Thumbkin (n.) An instrument of torture for compressing the thumb; a thumbscrew.
Thumbless (a.) Without a thumb.
Thumbscrew (n.) A screw having a flat-sided or knurled head, so that it may be turned by the thumb and forefinger.
Thumbscrew (n.) An old instrument of torture for compressing the thumb by a screw; a thumbkin.
Thummie (n.) The chiff-chaff.
Thummim (n. pl.) A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.
Thump (n.) The sound made by the sudden fall or blow of a heavy body, as of a hammer, or the like.
Thump (n.) A blow or knock, as with something blunt or heavy; a heavy fall.