throwing mill (throingmil)

Same as throwing- engine. throwing-stick (thro'ing-stik), n. 1. A stick by means of which, as with a thong, a javelin is propelled. The chief instance of it is the Australian wummerah.-2. Same as throw - stick. throwing-table (thrō'ing-tabl), n. A potters' wheel (compare throwing - engine ); also, a mod of loose filamentous material. All mo has here and there little stalks, besides the low thrum. Bacon , Nat. Hist., § 537. A child and dead? alas! how could it come? Surely thy thread of life was but a thrum. Witts' Recreations, 1654. ( Nares.) 3. A tuft, or a collection of tufts; a fringe or ta el. And tapestries all gold'n-fring'd, and curl'd with thrumbs behind. Chapman, Iliad, xvi. 220. 4. pl. Naut., short bits of rope-yarn used for sewing on mats.-5. pl. Coarse yarn; waste yarn.-6. A ragged rocky headland swept by the sea. Also thrum - cap. [Nova Scotia.] Thread and thrum. See thread. II. a . Made of thrums, or waste yarn: as, a thrum cap or hat. A pudding-wife, or a witch with a thruт сар. Mas singer, Renegado, 1. 3. wheel is turned by machinery: said to expedite greatly the work of shaping ordinary ve els. throwing-wheel (thro'ing-hwēl), n. A potters' wheel. throw-lathe (thrō'lah), n. A small lathe which is driven by one hand, while a tool is held or applied by the other. thrown (thron), p. a. [Pp. of throw1.] 1. Twisted: as, thrown silk (which see, under silk ). Portugal had some strong and rather coarse thrown silk, besides cocoons. Ure, Dict., IV. 892. 2. Disappointed. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] -3. In geol. and mining, moved out of its original position by a fault, or intersecting dike or vein, or fi ure of any kind, whether filled with ore, go an, flucan, or whether simply a crack. The words thrown and heaved are frequently used by miners as meaning the same thing, but properly the former has reference to the amount of vertical, the latter to the horizontal, displacement caused by a fault. 4. Turned. Compare throwl, v. t.. 2.- Thrown singles. See single, 1 ( a ). Thrown ware, pottery ve els which have been shaped on the potters' wheel, in cluding most ve els of rounded form, and of all epochs, except the coarsest and most barbarous. The greatest delicacy of form can be given to a piece in this way, as is instanced in the Greek vases of the best periods. throw-off (thrō'ôf), n. 1. A start in a hunt or race.-2. In printing, a mechanism which prevents or throws off impre ions while other ppr. thrumming. [Early mod. E. also thrumb, thrum me; The flower [of Scabiosa ] is like a Blewe or white thrummed hatte, the stalk rough, the upper leaues ragged, and the leaues next the grose rootes be plainer. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 225. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 2. 80. In Persia you shall finde carpets of course thrummed wooll. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 432. There's her thrummed hat and her muffler too. Are we born to thrum caps or pick straws? Quarles. Brave Thespian maidens, at whose charming layes Each mo - thrumb'd mountain bends, each current playes. W. Browne , Britannia's Pastorals, ii. 1. 21. To thatch. Would'st thou, a pretty, beautiful, juicy squall, live in a poor thrummed house i' th' country? Middle ton, Michael mas Term, i. 2. Thrummed mat ( naut .), a mat or piece of canvas with short strands of yarn stuck through it, in order to make a rough surface. It is used in a ve el's rigging about any part, to prevent chafing. thrum2 (thrum), v.; pret. and pp. thrummed, ppr. thrumming. [ IMG:content-0358.png:[blocks in formation] He thromlede [var. thrumbled ] at the threshefold. Piers Plowman (C), vii. 408. Song-thrush (Turdus music us). specifically, the throstle, song-thrush, or mavis of Europe, Turdus music us. There are more than a hundred species, nearly all of which have book-names in which thrush enters as a qualified term, and the common species of Great Britain and of the United States all have vernacular designations, in which thrush does or does not enter. No thrushes in any sense are common to the two countries named. In the former the dark-colored thrushes are called blackbirds and ouzels. Several true thrushes are figured under blackbird, 1, fieldfare, hermit-thrush, mistle thrush, ouzel, robin1, 2, veery, and wood - thrush. 2. Some bird not of the thrush family, mistaken for a thrush or compared to a thrush: with a qualifying epithet. Some are shrikes; others are starlings, warblers, etc. See the phrases following, among which few of the names of other than true thrushes are in other than historical use. - African thrush, an African starling, Amydrus (formerly Turdus or Sturnus ) morio, mostly black and orange-chestnut, from 10 to 11 inches long.-Alice's thrush, the gray-cheeked thrush: named 6317 Red-winged Thrush ( Turdus iliacus). by Baird in 1858 after Mi Alice Kennicott of Illinois. Ant thrush. See ant -thrush. - Ash-rumped thrush, Lalage terat, a campophagine bird of the Malay countries, - Audubon's thrush, a variety of the hermit-thrush.etc., a great stumbling-block of the early ornithologists. Babbling thrush. See babbler, 2, Timeliidæ, Brachy pod inæ, and Liotrichinæ. -Black-and-scarlet thrush, Pericrocotus speciosus, a campophagine bird of glo y black and flaming-red colors, 8 inches long, inhabiting India and China. - Black-cheeked thrush, Philepitta jala, of Madagascar. -Black-crowned thrush, an Australian thickhead, Pach, cephala guttural is. Latham.-Black faced thrush, a timeliine bird of China and Burma, Dryo Crater opus can or us. nastes chinensis. Latham, 1783. - Brown Indian thrush, thrasher, Harporhynchus rufus. See cut under thrasher2, Edwards. Brown thrush, the - Chinese thrush, Trochalopterum canorum. Latham, 1783.-Dominican thrush, Sturnia sturnina, an Asiatic starling of wide range. Latham, 1783. See Sturnia. Doubtful thrush. See Seisura. - Dwarf thrush. See dwarf. - Fly-catching thrush. (a) Any member of the genus Myiadestes; a solitaire. (b) See Seisura. - Fox-colored thrush, the common thrasher of the United States. Catesby, 1731. - Frivolous thrush, probably Pomatorhi nus temporal is, of Australia. Latham, 1801.-Fruit thrush, a bulbul. - Gilded thrush, a West African glo y starling, Lam pro col i us purpure us (or auratus ). Latham, 1783.-Gingi thrush, Acrid oes eres ging i an us, a sturnoid bird of northern and central India; a mina, very near A. trist is. See Acrid oes eres. - Glo y thrush, one of the glo y starlings of Africa, Lamp rot ornis ( Urauges ) cauda tus. See cut under Urauges. - Golden-crowned thrush, See oven - bird, 1. - Gray-cheeked thrush, Turdus aliciæ, a common thrush of North America, very near the olive back, but lacking the tawny suffusion of the sides of the head.-Gray thrush, Crater opus grise us, of southern In thrust the under parts are mostly orange-brown instead of chestnut, with a heavy black pectoral band; there is an orange brown postocular stripe, and the wings are much variegated with this color. The bird is common along the Pacific coast region from Alaska to Mexico, and stragglers have been observed in other parts of the United States, even on the Atlantic coast. The nest is built in bushes, of twigs, gra es, mo es, and lichens; the eggs are pale greenish-blue speckled with dark-brown, and 1.10 × 0.80 inch in size. Variegated thrush, a Brazilian cactus wren, Campylorhynchus variegatus. Latham. - Volatile thrush. See Seisura. - Water thrush. See water -thrush, and cut under Seiurus. -Whidah thrush, Pholidauges leuco gaster, a sturnoid bird of Africa.-White-eared thrush, the white-eared honey-eater of Australia, Ptilo tis leucotis.-White-rumped thrush, Spreo bicolor. See second cut under starling1.-Wilson's thrush, the veery (which see, with cut). - Wood thrush. See wood - thrush (with cut).- Yellow-bellied thrush, the regent-bird, formerly Turdus melinus, also called golden -crowned honey - eater by Latham in 1822. See cut under regent - bird. Latham, 1801. - Yellow-breasted thrush, an Australian thickhead, Eopsaltria australis. Lewin. - Yellow crowned thrush. See Trachycomus.