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to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land. One heaved ahigh, to be hurled down below. Shak.

To push; to jostle; to hurl. And he hurtleth with his horse adown. Chaucer.

The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears. Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire. Milton.

To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.

Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance. We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart. Pope.

Nostril. [Obs.] [Written also nosethurl, nosthrill.] Chaucer.

An ancient war engine for hurling stones.

uld have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.

To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

A low fellow; a churl. Raff merchant, a dealer in lumber and odd refuse. [Prov. Eng.]

f the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. Chaucer. Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. Josh. xxii. 16.

An ancient military engine for hurling stones and other missiles. Book scorpion. (Zoöl.) See under Book. -- False scorpion. (Zoöl.) See under False, and Book scorpion. -- Scorpion bug, or Water scorpion (Zoöl.) See Nepa. -- Scorpion fly (Zoöl.), a neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa. See Panorpid. -- Scorpion…

To emit; to impel; to cast; to throw; to hurl; as, to send a ball, an arrow, or the like.

To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit. An honest weaver as ever shot shuttle. Beau & Fl. A pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores. Macaulay.

To throw or hurl obliquely.

The act or motion of hurling as with a sling; a throw; figuratively, a stroke. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune. Shak. At one sling Of thy victorius arm, well-pleasing Son. Milton.

To cause to strike; to use as an instrument in striking or hurling. Profpesy, and smite thine hands together. Ezek. xxi. 14. Saul . . . smote the javelin into the wall. 1 Sam. xix. 10.

emely close and covetous; meanly avaricious; niggardly; miserly; penurious; as, a stingy churl. A stingy, narrow-hearted fellow that had a deal of choice fruit, had not the heart to touch it till it began to be rotten. L'estrange.

ignating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.

ended with rain, hail, or snow; a furious storm. [We] caught in a fiery tempest, shall be hurled, Each on his rock transfixed. Milton.