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A play designed to promote or display grace of motion. It consists in throwing a small hoop from one player to another, by means of two sticks in the hands of each. Called also grace hoop or hoops. Act of grace. See under Act. -- Day of grace (Theol.), the time of probation, when the offer of divine forgiveness is mad…

A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines,…

th, defense, or diversion; -- said of games or exercises, as running, leaping, wrestling, throwing the discus, the javelin, etc.; also, pertaining to disciplinary exercises for the intellect; athletic; as, gymnastic exercises, contests, etc.

A ball for throwing or using with the hand.

The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak.

divided in equal portions among all the daughters. In modern usage, a mixing together, or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children;…

The act of hurling or throwing with violence; a cast; a fling. Congreve.

The act of throwing with force.

A machine for throwing water by hand power, as a garden engine, a fire extinguisher, etc.

Tending to illuminate or illustrate; throwing light; illustrative. "Illuminative reading." Carlyle.

The act of injecting or throwing in; -- applied particularly to the forcible throwing in of a liquid, or aëriform body, by means of a syringe, pump, etc.

at I might appear to disparage his intended, . . . I would add that to me she seems to be throwing herself away. Dickens.

The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected. The interjection of laughing. Bacon.

Throwing, or allowing to pass, into or within.

A throwing or tossing of the body; a shaking or agitation. Sir. W. Temple.

Fit for throwing. [Obs.]

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

Darting or throwing out suddenly; also, suddenly thrown out; uttered in short sentences; ejaculatory; as, jaculatory prayers. Smart.

The act of pulling, pushing, or throwing, with a jerk. -- Jerk"ing*ly, adv.

The throwing overboard of goods from necessity, in order to lighten a vessel in danger of wreck.