(a) The throwing of a dart, stone, etc.; casting with a sling; throwing or putting the stone as a sport; hurling missiles with a siege engine; (b) the throwing of dice; al is cast on a ~, all is risked on a single throw; at last ~, at (one's) last throw, with (one's) back to the wall; (c) a throw in wrestling, a fall; (d) a throwing away, a loss; (e) speaking, utterance; (f) a sudden movement; a blow; ~ of eie, a turn of the eye, a glance; (g) counting, reckoning; (h) a trick, stratagem; a plan, plot, scheme, malicious intention; treacherous conduct, trickery; fer ~ [in part a fig. use of sense (a)], a far cast, a clever trick, a brilliant scheme.

(a) A missile; (b) the number turned up at a throw of the dice; (c) a sartorial contrivance, a belt or girdle; (d) a certain quantity; the amount of hay for which the king's purveyors would allow a halfpenny; ?the amount of bread allowed for one day or for one meal; also as term of association: a ~ of bred; (e) hawk. the number of hawks started in pursuit of the quarry at one time; also as term of association: a ~ of haukes.

(a) The range of a sling, the distance to which it will cast; (b) a short distance; stones ~, a stone's throw; ~ of an alblast, as far as an arbalest will shoot; ~ of a coit, distance a quoit can be thrown; (c) stones ~, the time needed to throw a stone, an instant; (d) intention, purpose; (e) the form or design (of a building, etc.); the shape or image (of the sun's path); human form or shape; (f) nature, type, kind; (g) ?ability to do or make, art, skill.

(a) The situation in which one finds oneself, circumstances, plight; (b) occasion, opportunity; (c) at thilk ~, under those circumstances, on that occasion.