▪ I. ˈout-throw, ˈoutthrow, n.
[out- 7.]
1. The act of throwing out; ejection, emission; output; outburst of energy; matter ejected.
| 1855 M. Pattison in Oxford Ess. 273 It would be of no use to appeal to the rise and fall of the scholastic philosophy... For this reason, we pass over the wonderful purely philosophical out-throw of the thirteenth century. 1869 Phillips Vesuv. viii. 228 We see in it a local outthrow of stony, ashy, and perhaps muddy materials. 1892 Cornh. Mag. Oct. 415 Its outthrow of mud and stones. |
2. A throwing or being thrown out of line.
| 1855 Cornwall 113 The more obtuse the angle, the more considerable is the out-throw. |
▪ II. out-throw, outthrow, v.
(aʊtˈθrəʊ)
[out- 15, 17, 18.]
† 1. trans. To throw out, cast out. Obs. (Properly two words.)
| a 1300 E.E. Psalter lxxii. 18 Þou out þrew þam when up-hoven ware þai. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle iv. xx. (Caxton 1483) 65 On the wylle I oute throwe my salt teres. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. ii. 1 Firebrand of hell..from thence out throwen, Into this world to worke confusion. a 1711 Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 119 Foul Invida with Gall she had outthrown. |
2. To throw beyond (a point); to surpass (a person) in the length of a throw.
| 1613 Uncasing of Machiav. 18 Out-throw it [the jack at bowls] not, lest thou lose the cast. 1638 Mayne Lucian (1664) 201 Striving who shall hurle farthest, and outthrow the rest. 1676 Hobbes Iliad (1677) 358 And with the spears I Polydore out-threw. |
† b. fig. To exaggerate. Obs.
| a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) I. 12 T'out-throw, and stretch, and to enlarge Shall now no more be laid t'our Charge. |