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The right which an heir has of throwing the whole heritable and movable estates of the deceased into one mass, and sharing it equaly with others who are of the same degree of kindred.

A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation.

aw), an inference which the law makes so peremptorily that it will not allow it to be overthrown by any contrary proof, however strong.

To throw into confusion or disorder; to perplex; to strike with amazement; to dismay.

Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

To throw together, or to throw. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.

To plot; to plan; to combine for. Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall.

recede or follow a text or quoted sentence, or are so intimately associated with it as to throw light upon its meaning. According to all the light that the contexts afford. Sharp.

ized by convulsions; convulsionary. An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease. Burke.

To throw. [Prov.Eng.] "Cook me that ball." Grose.

At or against the front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

hrough which a vein runs. Conclusion to the country. See under Conclusion. -- To put, or throw, one's self upon the country, to appeal to one's constituents; to stand trial before a jury.

ned frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot. [U.S.]

In the game of craps, a first throw of the dice in which the total is two, three, or twelve, in which case the caster loses.

The upper curve of a horse's neck. Throwing the base thong from his bending crest. Shak.

A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

n the Vocabulary. -- Cross breeding. See under Breeding. -- Cross buttock, a particular throw in wrestling; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse. Smollet. -- Cross country, across the country; not by the road. "The cross- country ride." Cowper. -- Cross fertilization, the fertilization of the female products of o…

A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

The implement with which the ball is thrown and caught in the game of lacrosse.

To gather or throw into a heap; to heap together; to accumulate. Shoals of shells, bedded and cumulated heap upon heap. Woodward.