Throw \Throw\, v. t. [imp. Threw (thr[udd]); p. p. Thrown (thr[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. Throwing.]

[OE. [thorn]rowen, [thorn]rawen, to throw, to twist, AS. [thorn]r[=a]wan to twist, to whirl; akin to D. draaijen, G. drehen, OHG. dr[=a]jan, L. terebra an auger, gimlet, Gr. ? to bore, to turn, ? to pierce, ? a hole. Cf. Thread, Trite, Turn, v. t.]

1. To fling, cast, or hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

2. 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.

3. To drive by violence; as, a vessel or sailors may be thrown upon a rock.

4. (Mil.) To cause to take a strategic position; as, he threw a detachment of his army across the river.

5. To overturn; to prostrate in wrestling; as, a man throws his antagonist.

6. To cast, as dice; to venture at dice.

Set less than thou throwest. --Shak.

7. To put on hastily; to spread carelessly.

O'er his fair limbs a flowery vest he threw. --Pope.

8. To divest or strip one's self of; to put off.

There the snake throws her enameled skin. --Shak.

9. (Pottery) To form or shape roughly on a throwing engine, or potter's wheel, as earthen vessels.

10. To give forcible utterance to; to cast; to vent.

I have thrown A brave defiance in King Henry's teeth. --Shak.

12. 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. --Tomlinson.

To throw away.
   (a) To lose by neglect or folly; to spend in vain; to bestow without a compensation; as, to throw away time; to throw away money.
   (b) To reject; as, to throw away a good book, or a good offer.

To throw back.
   (a) To retort; to cast back, as a reply.
   (b) To reject; to refuse.
   (c) To reflect, as light.

To throw by, to lay aside; to discard; to 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.

To throw in.
   (a) To inject, as a fluid.
   (b) To put in; to deposit with others; to contribute; as, to throw in a few dollars to help make up a fund; to throw in an occasional comment.
   (c) To add without enumeration or valuation, as something extra to clinch a bargain.

To throw off.
   (a) To expel; to free one's self from; as, to throw off a disease.
   (b) To reject; to discard; to abandon; as, to throw off all sense of shame; to throw off a dependent.
   (c) To make a start in a hunt or race. [Eng.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)