Word Meanings - JACULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears. Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire. Milton.

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• JACULATION
  The act of tossing, throwing, or hurling, as spears. Hurled to and fro with jaculation dire. Milton.
• HURLBONE
  A bone near the middle of the buttock of a horse. Crabb. (more info) 1. See Whirlbone.
• HURLING
  1. The act of throwing with force. 2. A kind of game at ball, formerly played. Hurling taketh its denomination from throwing the ball. Carew.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• HURLY
  Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.
• HURLWIND
  A whirlwind. Sandys.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• TOSSILY
  In a tossy manner.
• HURL
  To twist or turn. "Hurled or crooked feet." Fuller. (more info) 1. To send whirling or whizzing through the air; to throw with violence; to drive with great force; as, to hurl a stone or lance. And hurl'd them headlong to their fleet and main.
• HURLY-BURLY
  Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• HURLER
  One who hurls, or plays at hurling.
• TOSSEL
  See TASSEL
• HURLBAT
  See HOLLAND
• THROWN
  a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread
• TOSSPOT
  A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard. Shak.
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• TOSS
  1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• RETOSS
  To toss back or again.
• CHURL
  husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow
• RINGTOSS
  A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
• BETOSS
  To put in violent motion; to agitate; to disturb; to toss. "My betossed soul." Shak.
• OUTTHROW
  1. To throw out. Spenser. 2. To excel in throwing, as in ball playing.