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To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

To throw out of employment. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To eject or discharge by the throat and mouth; to vomit; to pour forth or throw out with violence, as if from the mouth; to discharge violently or in great quantities from a confined place. This mountain when it rageth, . . . casteth forth huge stones, disgorgeth brimstone. Hakluyt. They loudly laughed To see his heavi…

To suffer (the hair) to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw (the hair) in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

To throw or bring down from an elevation, place of honor and authority, or the like. Dismounted from his authority. Barrow.

To turn away from the west; to throw out of reckoning as to longitude. [Obs.] Marvell.

To throw out of the proper orbit; to unsphere. Shak.

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.

r system of (a government, a society, a party, etc.); to break up (what is organized); to throw into utter disorder; to disarrange. Lyford . . . attempted to disorganize the church. Eliot (1809).

To throw (a park or inclosure); to treat (a private park) as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor.

To oppose by argument or assertion; to attempt to overthrow; to controvert; to express dissent or opposition to; to call in question; to deny the truth or validity of; as, to dispute assertions or arguments. To seize goods under the disputed authority of writs of assistance. Bancroft.

To throw out of rank or into confusion. Decker.

To throw into a state of dissent. [R.] Feltham.

To throw into disorder or confusion; to derange; to interrupt the settled state of; to excite from a state of rest. Preparing to disturb With all-cofounding war the realms above. Cowper. The bellow's noise disturbed his quiet rest. Spenser. The utmost which the discontented colonies could do, was to disturb authority.…

To throw into a ditch; as, the engine was ditched and turned on its side.

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.

Sudden fall; downfall; overthrow. Milton.