the Fourth Week of Advent
Click here to join the effort!
Bible Dictionaries
Throw
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.
(2):
(n.) The distance which a missile is, or may be, thrown; as, a stone's throw.
(3):
(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.
(4):
(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.
(5):
(v. t.) To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.
(6):
(v. t.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.
(7):
(v. t.) To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.
(8):
(v. t.) To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.
(9):
(v. t.) To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.
(10):
(v. t.) To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.
(11):
(n.) A turner's lathe; a throwe.
(12):
(v. t.) To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.
(13):
(v. t.) To bring forth; to produce, as young; to bear; - said especially of rabbits.
(14):
(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.
(15):
(v. i.) To perform the act of throwing or casting; to cast; specifically, to cast dice.
(16):
(n.) The act of hurling or flinging; a driving or propelling from the hand or an engine; a cast.
(17):
(n.) A stroke; a blow.
(18):
(n.) A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; as, a good throw.
(19):
(n.) An effort; a violent sally.
(20):
(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.
(21):
(n.) A potter's wheel or table; a jigger. See 2d Jigger, 2 (a).
(22):
(n.) The amount of vertical displacement produced by a fault; - according to the direction it is designated as an upthrow, or a downthrow.
(23):
(n.) Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.
(24):
(n.) Time; while; space of time; moment; trice.
These files are public domain.
Text Courtesy of BibleSupport.com. Used by Permission.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Throw'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/throw.html. 1828.
