Word Meanings - MISTHROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To throw wrongly.

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• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• THROWE
  A turning lathe.
• THROW-CROOK
  An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
• THROWING STICK
  An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds
• WRONGLY
  In a wrong manner; unjustly; erroneously; wrong; amiss; as, he judges wrongly of my motives. "And yet wouldst wrongly win." Shak.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.
• TWO-THROW
  Capable of being thrown or cranked in two directions, usually opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank; a two-throw switch. Having two crank set near together and opposite to one another; as, a two-throw crank shaft.
• DOWNTHROW
  The sudden drop or depression of the strata of rocks on one side of a fault. See Throw, n.
• YTHROWE
  p. p. of Throw. Chaucer.
• OVERTHROW
  1. To throw over; to overturn; to upset; to turn upside down. His wife overthrew the table. Jer. Taylor. 2. To cause to fall or to fail; to subvert; to defeat; to make a ruin of; to destroy. When the walls of Thebes he overthrew. Dryden. that seeks
• UPTHROW
  To throw up. Drayton.