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To throw again. Florio.

That which is redundant or in excess; anything superfluous or superabundant. Labor . . . throws off redundacies. Addison.

To riddle; to sift; to separate or throw off. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Mortimer.

To throw back light, heat, or the like; to return rays or beams.

Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc.

Capable of being reflected, or thrown back; reflexible.

Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface.

Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.

Capable of being reflected, or thrown back. The light of the sun consists of rays differently refrangible and reflexible. Cheyne.

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

futing or disproving, or the state of being refuted; proof of falsehood or error; the overthrowing of an argument, opinion, testimony, doctrine, or theory, by argument or countervailing proof. Same of his blunders seem rather to deserve a flogging than a refutation. Macaulay.

To disprove and overthrow by argument, evidence, or countervailing proof; to prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; as, to refute arguments; to refute testimony; to refute opinions or theories; to refute a disputant. There were so many witnesses in these two miracles that it is impossible to refute such multitudes…

Object of sight; scene; view; aspect. [R.] Throw out our eyes for brave Othello, Even till we make the main and the aërial blue An indistinct regard. Shak.

To vomit up; to eject from the stomach; to throw back. Hayward.

To throw or pour back, as from a deep or hollow place; to pour or throw back in great quantity.

To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson (More's Utopia). Reject me not from among thy children. Wisdom ix. 4.

Things thrown out or away; especially, things excreted by a living organism. J. Fleming.

Act of rejecting; matter rejected, or thrown away. Eaton.

y of a work first issued in another; a reprint. If there be many testaments, the last overthrows all the former; but the republication of a former will revokes one of a later date, and establishes the first. Blackstone.

ion. Sir W. Raleigh. We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries. Milton.