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orance of the real and immediate cause. Samuel Clark. Any society into which chance might throw him. Macaulay. That power Which erring men call Chance. Milton.

other place where the bones of the dead are deposited; originally, a place for the bones thrown up when digging new graves in old burial grounds.

A complete check; utter defeat or overthrow.

ly piquant cherry-shaped fruit. -- Cherry pit. (a) A child's play, in which cherries are thrown into a hole. Shak. (b) A cherry stone. -- Cherry rum, rum in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry sucker (Zoöl.), the European spotted flycatcher (Musicapa grisola); -- called also cherry chopper cherry snipe. Cher…

To shoot out; to sprout. I have known barley chit in seven hours after it had been thrown forth. Mortimer.

To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch. [Slang, Eng.] Dickens.

A white cloth, anointed with chrism, or a white mantle thrown over a child when baptized or christened. [Obs.]

g the sun and enveloping the photosphere. Portions of the chromosphere are here and there thrown up into enormous tongues of flame.

To toss or throw smartly out of the hand; to pitch. [Colloq.] "Mahomet Ali will just be chucked into the Nile." Lord Palmerson.

A scale thrown off in forging metal.

e a calcareous shell composed of several pieces. From the opening of the shell the animal throws out a group of curved legs, looking like a delicate curl, whence the name of the group. See Anatifa.

A close embrace; a throwing of the arms around; a grasping, as with the hand. Clasp knife, a large knife, the blade of which folds or shuts into the handle. -- Clasp lock, a lock which closes or secures itself by means of a spring.

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

id, noisy talk; babble; chatter. "Hold still thy clatter." Towneley Myst. (15 th Cent. ). Throw by your clatter And handle the matter. B. Jonson

A divination by throwing dice or casting lots.

To throw violently; to hurl. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion. To club a battalion implies a temporary inability in the commanding officer to restore any given body of men to their natural front in line or column. Farrow.

To crowd together in disorder; to fill or cover with things in disorder; to throw into disorder; to disarrange; as, to clutter a room.

A game in which trinkets are set upon sticks, to be thrown at by the players; -- so called from an ancient popular sport which consisted in "shying" or throwing cudgels at live cocks.

To throw, as a stone. [Obs.] See Quoit.