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[ The Old Bachelour has a Throw at the Di enting Min isters. J. Collier , Short View (ed. 1698), p. 101. Then heaved a stone, and, rising to the throw , He sent it in a whirlwind at the foe. Add is on, tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., iii. 2. A cast of dice; the manner in which dice fall when cast; hence, risk; venture. They that enter into the state of marriage cast a die of the greatest contingency, and yet of the greatest interest in the world, next to the last throw for eternity. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), Ι. 707. Am I to set my life upon a throw Because a bear is rude and surly? Cowper, Conversation, 1. 191. IMG:content-0357.png:[blocks in formation] 5. The distance which a mi ile may be thrown by the hand. Oh 'tis a nice place! a butcher hard by in the village, and the parsonage-house within a stone's throw. Jane Austen , Sense and Sensibility, xxx. Rebecca and her husband were but at a few stones' throw of the lodgings which the invalid Mi Crawley occupied. Thackeray , Vanity Fair, xxv. 6. In steam-engines, the extreme movement of a slide-valve, or of a crank or an eccentric, measured on a straight line pa ing through the center of motion. Good rich.-7. In geol. and mining, a fault or dislocation of the strata; a leap. Of late the term throw has been more generally used to denote the amount of vertical displacement caused by a leap or fault. See the quotations. [Cornwall, Eng.] In the Saint Agnes district, however, these traversing veins often contain earthy brown ore, and called "go ans"; and here the displacement is designated a leap-a provincial term used by Mr. Pryce (Mineral. Corn., p. 106), which seems to expre the effect as well as any other I have seen. Mr. Carne (Corn. Geol. Trans., ii. p. 119) has introduced the word throw as a synonym. The expre ions throw and leap are therefore equivalents, and slide is often used by miners in the same sense. Henwood , Met. Deposits of Cornwall and Devon (1843), In the case of an inclined fault, the level of the selected stratum is protracted acro the fi ure until a vertical from it will reach the level of the same bed. The length of this vertical is the amount of vertical displacement, or the throw of the fault. Geikie , Text-Book of Geol. (1885), p. 513. acts as a setback; specifically, a person who or thing which causes another to seem inferior by contrast. [Slang.] She is personally a throwback to an angel. Athenæum, No. 3229, p. 351. throw-bait (thrō'bāt), n. Same as toll - bait . throw-crank (thrō'krangk), n. A crank which converts rotary into reciprocating motion. Ure , Dict., III. 25.