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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. (…

definite event occurred, or person lived; age; period; era; as, the Spanish Armada was destroyed in the time of Queen Elizabeth; -- often in the plural; as, ancient times; modern times.

An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. Specifically: --

A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.

To bring, as any term of an equation, from one side over to the other, without destroying the equation; thus, if a + b = c, and we make a = c - b, then b is said to be transposed.

The bringing of any term of an equation from one side over to the other without destroying the equation.

of Hindoo gods, consisting of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, and Siva, the Destroyer. [Spelled also Trimurtti.]

To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine. But thou from loving England art so far, That thou hast underwrought his lawful king. Shak.

To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; to unmake. [R.] Good.

Decomposed, or resolved into parts; having the form destroyed.

To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.

strained; unrestricted. Ascribe not unto God such an unlimited exercise of mercy as may destroy his justice. Rogers. Unlimited problem (Math.), a problem which is capable of an infinite number of solutions. -- Unlimited pump, a kind of deep-well pump placed at the level of the water, and operated from above ground. -…

To destroy the form and qualities of; to deprive of being; to uncreate. God does not make or unmake things to try experiments. T. Burnet.

To mar or destroy the perfection of. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

To destroy the moral principles of. [R.]

Not ruined or destroyed. [Obs.] "Unruinated towers." Bp. Hall.

To wish not to be; to destroy by wishing. [Obs.] Now thou hast unwished five thousand men. Shak.

To undo or destroy, as work previously done.

To destroy by an explosion from beneath. (c) To explode; as, the boiler blew up. (d) To reprove angrily; to scold. [Slang] -- To bring up. See under Bring, v. t. -- To come up with. See under Come, v. i. -- To cut up. See under Cut, v. t. & i. -- To draw up. See under Draw, v. t. -- To grow up, to grow to maturity.…

nd fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroying the monuments of art and literature.