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Throw
King James Dictionary
or THROW, pret. threw pp. thrown. Gr. to run L. trochilus.
1. Properly, to hurl to whirl to fling or cast in a winding direction.
2. To fling or cast in any manner to propel to send to drive to a distance from the hand or from an engine. Thus we throw stones or dust with the hand a cannon throws a ball a bomb throws a shell. The Roman balista threw various weapons. A fire engine throws water to extinguish flames.
3. To wind as, to throw silk.
4. To turn as, to throw balls in a lathe.
Not in general use.
5. To venture at dice.
Set less than thou throwest.
6. To cast to divest or strip one's self of to put off as, a serpent throws his skin.
7. To cast to send.
I have thrown
A brave defiance in king Henry's teeth.
8. To put on to spread carelessly.
O'er his fair limbs a flow'ry vest he threw.
9. To overturn to prostrate in wrestling as, a man throws his antagonist.
10. To cast to drive by violence as a vessel or sailors thrown upon a rock.
To throw away, to lose by neglect or folly to spend in vain as, to throw away time to throw away money.
1. To bestow without a compensation.
2. To reject as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.
To throw by, to lay aside or neglect as useless as, to throw by a garment.
To throw down, to subvert to overthrow to destroy as, to throw down a fence or wall.
1. To bring down from a high station to depress.
To throw in, to inject.
1. To put in to deposit with others also, to give up or relinquish.
To throw off, to expel to clear from as, to throw off a disease.
1. To reject to discard as, to throw off all sense of shame to throw off a dependent.
To throw on, to cast on to load.
To throw out, to cast out to reject or discard to expel.
1. To utter carelessly to speak as, to throw out insinuations or observations.
2. To exert to bring forth into act.
She throws out thrilling shrieks.
3. To distance to leave behind.
4. To exclude to reject. The bill was thrown out on the second reading.
To throw up, to resign as, to throw up a commission.
1. To resign angrily.
Bad games are thrown up too soon.
2. To discharge from the stomach.
To throw one's self down, to lie down.
To throw one's self on, to resign one's self to the favor, clemency or sustaining power of another to repose.
THROW, To perform the act of throwing.
1. To cast dice.
To throw about, to cast about to try expedients. Not much used.
THROW, n. The act of hurling or flinging a cast a driving or propelling from the hand or from an engine.
He heav'd a stone, and rising to the throw,
He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe.
1. A cast of dice and the manner in which dice fall when cast as a good throw. None but a fool hazards all upon one throw.
2. The distance which a missile is or may be thrown as a stone's throw.
3. A stroke a blow.
Nor shield defend the thunder of his throws.
4. Effort violent sally.
Your youth admires
The throws and swellings of a Roman soul.
5. The agony of travail. See Throe.
6. A turner's lathe. Local.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Throw'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/throw.html.
