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faces with spots from one to six, and used in playing games by being shaken in a box and thrown from it. See Dice.

Meanness; sordidness. Honors . . . thrown away upon dirt and infamy. Melmoth.

Discomfited; overthrown. [Obs.]

der or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder.

Thrown into disorder; deranged; as, a disordered house, judgment.

a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.

Two dice, each of which, when thrown, has the same number of spots on the face lying uppermost; as, to throw doublets.

A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural. Hills afford prospects, as they must needs acknowledge who have been on the downs of Sussex. Ray. She went by dale, and she went by down. Tennyson.

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes. Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run along spasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. De Quincey.…

A mass of matter which has been driven or forced onward together in a body, or thrown together in a heap, etc., esp. by wind or water; as, a drift of snow, of ice, of sand, and the like. Drifts of rising dust involve the sky. Pope. We got the brig a good bed in the rushing drift [of ice]. Kane.

The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement.

That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.

Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.

An injection, or clyster, thrown into the rectum as a medicine, or to impart nourishment. Hoblyn.

Thrown into ecstasy; transported; enraptured. Shak.

A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to form bases of piers, breakwaters, etc.

Rather than. I will be thrown into Etna, . . . ere I will leave her. Shak. Ere long, before, shortly. Shak. -- Ere now, formerly, heretofore. Shak. -- Ere that, and Or are. Same as Ere. Shak.

The act of throwing out; the state of being turned or thrown out. [Obs.] Boyle.

To thrust out; to force, press, or push out; to expel; to drive off or away. "Parentheses thrown into notes or extruded to the margin." Coleridge.

To be overthrown or captured; to be destroyed. Heaven and earth will witness, If Rome must fall, that we are innocent. Addison.