| 单词 | to throw up |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto throw up to throw up 1. transitive. a. To raise or lift (a part of the body, esp. the eyes, hands, or head) quickly or suddenly. Cf. main sense 16. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)] > raise > specifically a part of the body to bear upc1175 to cast upc1384 to throw upa1413 erect1609 to up with1766 a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) Fil Pandarus on knees and vp his eyen To heuene þrew [?a1450 St. John's Cambr. L. 1 threugh, c1450 Harl. 2280 trewe]. 1560 A. L. in tr. J. Calvin Serm. Songe Ezechias Ep. sig. A6v You se him sometyme throwe vp his gastly eyen, starynge wyth horrour. 1570 W. Gibson Discription Nortons Falcehod (single sheet) Throw vp your snouts you sluggish sorte You mumming maskyng route. 1627 J. Barlow Seasonable Disc. Spirituall Stedfastnesse 163 We like frighted cattell, might stand still, throw vp the head, looke about. 1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires ii. vii. 325 I throw my Nose up to a savoury Steam. 1788 Amer. Mus. Feb. 182/2 A vocal performer..threw up his head and replied. 1821 Examiner 19 Aug. 524/1 Eternally throwing up their eyes to heaven. 1883 R. G. White Mr. Washington Adams in Eng. 121 He threw up his left arm. 1919 B. Ruck Sweethearts Unmet xiv. 132 Mabel..threw up her chin and said: ‘Oh, thank you!’ 1950 N.Y. Amsterdam News 11 Mar. 2/4 As Riddick threw up his hands in a futile protection gesture, his host swung the knife. 2015 J. K. Johnson More than Neighbors i. 28 One of the horses swung away.., and the other threw up his head. b. to throw up one's hands. (a) To raise one's hands in a gesture of submission to someone; to surrender. Chiefly in imperative. Also occasionally to throw up one's arms. Cf. hands up int. 2, stick 'em up! at stick v.1 Phrasal verbs 1. Now rare.In quot. 2008 in a work of historical fiction. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > make victorious [verb (transitive)] > call upon to surrender summon?1473 to throw up one's hands1724 1724 Hist. Remarkable Life J. Sheppard 25 Langley..Dismounting with Pistol in Hand, commands Page to throw up his Hands, which he trembling did, begging for Life. 1878 Brisbane Courier 19 Dec. Throw up your arms, I'm Ned Kelly. 1887 I. Randall Lady's Ranche Life Montana 37 He was suddenly aware of a horse galloping rapidly up behind him, and heard a shout: ‘Throw up your hands!’ 1924 Collier's 12 Jan. 36/3 Get away from him now, you mister with a beard... Throw up your hands, you! 2008 T. Evans Longarm & Pecos Promenade 177 Throw up your hands. You're all under arrest. (b) figurative. To display or express horror, despair, frustration, etc.; (in later use also) to disclaim responsibility. ΚΠ 1884 T. Whittaker Life's Battles in Temperance Armour xxxiii. 345 It is never well to throw up our hands and give up as lost because of difficulties desperate and troubles overwhelming. 1920 Amer. Machinist 52 818/2 After two very trying years, I threw up my hands and swore ‘Never again’. 1989 L. Zolf Scorpions for Sale xxxii. 191 The canvasser would then set an absurdly high price the sucker couldn't afford, the sucker would balk, and the canvasser would throw up his hands and say it was up to the branch manager to decide on a price. 2012 Independent 27 Nov. 15/4 But each time the floodplain serves its proper purpose..insurers throw up their hands,..and much of the cost is transferred to the taxpayer. 2. transitive. a. To cast or hurl (something) upwards; to raise. ΚΠ c1422 T. Hoccleve Tale of Jerelaus (Durh.) l. 364 in Minor Poems (1970) i. 152 Vp he threew an heuy syk. 1565 W. Alley Πτωχομυσεῖον i. i. f. 53v They..throwe him vp so hie, that before he fall to ye ground agayne, he is choked. 1675 T. Brooks Word in Season 89 in Paradice Opened You may throw up your caps at them, and bid them do their worst. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Apr. (1965) I. 343 Marble Fountains in the lower part of the room which throws up several spouts of Water. 1780 W. Coxe Acct. Russ. Discov. 253 The chain of islands here laid down may..be considered as thrown up by some late volcanos. 1786 B. Franklin in Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 2 73 The fresh coals..will throw up..a body of thick smoke. 1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 171 Land..thrown up into very narrow ridges. 1893 Argosy Aug. 116 The seaweeds thrown up on his estate. 1918 Everybody's Mag. July 71/2 Shells were exploding, tearing up the earth, and throwing up clouds of dust. 2001 Cincinnati Mag. June 78/2 The referee throws up the ball to start the game. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > open [verb (transitive)] > throw open warpc1000 to-thrustc1175 to waive up1377 upcastc1425 to wap widec1440 to throw upa1500 to fling open1587 to cast open1633 to fling wide1847 a1500 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Chetham) l. 1655 + 20 Anon the gates he gan vp throwe. c. To lift and open (a sash window) suddenly or with force. ΚΠ 1733 Kick him Jenny 17 She..Threw up the Window tow'rd the Yard. 1757 Hist. Two Mod. Adventurers II. 195 The Sashes were thrown up, and they were all sitting in the Windows. 1823 Acct. Visit from St. Nicholas in Troy (N.Y.) Sentinel 23 Dec. 3/5 Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tore open the shutters, and threw up the sash. 1861 Temple Bar 3 221 She hastily threw up the window. 1904 Secret Service 19 Aug. 15/2 He hurried to the window, and throwing up the sash, looked down on Mott street. 1964 in R. D. Abrahams Deep down in Jungle ii. v. 204 Grandma threw up the window, took off all her clothes and throwed herself in bed. 2001 ‘J. D. Robb’ Betrayal in Death x. 145 As he listened, he threw up the window, leaned out as if..desperate for air. 3. transitive. Originally: to raise (an earthwork, a mound, etc.) by digging and piling up earth. Later more generally: to erect, construct, or set up, esp. quickly or hastily.In early use in military contexts. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > fortify [verb (transitive)] > throw up (works) to throw up1591 to fling up1654 1591 W. Garrard & R. Hitchcock Arte of Warre 265 Throw vp another rampire with certaine bulwarks at euery corner. 1642 W. Benningfield True Relation Renowned Victory sig. A2v Our men threw up Walls of Turffe and Earth to shelter them from the Rebels shot. a1661 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. G. Capriata Hist. Wars Italy (1663) xvii. 713 He..immediately caused greater banks to be thrown up against the mouth of the Channel. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 6. ⁋10 The Greeks threw up a great Intrenchment to secure their Navy. 1785 J. Drinkwater Hist. Siege Gibraltar iv. 125 The Enemy threw up two places d'armes for musquetry, on the flanks of the Mill-battery. 1830 J. Welsh Mil. Reminisc. I. iii. 96 The Poligars had thrown up a breast-work, with one small gun, in front of the road. 1880 R. Mackenzie 19th Cent. iii. ii. 287 Armed crowds began to appear, and barricades were thrown up. 1919 National Petroleum News 30 Apr. 18/1 It has been a question of throwing up houses and stores and buildings as speedily as possible. 2006 N.Y. Times 14 Jan. a6/5 The authorities..threw up a tight security cordon around the building. 4. a. transitive. colloquial. To vomit (the contents of the stomach). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (transitive)] > vomit spew971 aspewc1200 to gulch out?c1225 casta1300 vomea1382 brake1393 evacuec1400 to cast outa1425 deliver?a1425 voida1425 evomec1450 evomit?a1475 disgorge1477 to cast up1483 degorge1493 vomish1536 retch1538 parbreak1540 reject1540 vomit1541 evacuate1542 revomit1545 belch1558 vomit1560 to lay up1570 upvomit1582 to fetch up1599 puke1601 respew1606 inbelch1610 spew1610 to throw up1614 exgurgitate1623 out-spew1647 egurgitate1656 to throw off1660 to bring up1719 pick1828 sick1924 yark1927 barf1960 to park the tiger1970 vom1991 1614 S. Latham Falconry ii. xxi. 116 It [sc. worme-wood] is a thing in taste very bitter..and may cause a crasie Hawke..to throw vp her meate and all. 1653 tr. H. van der Heyden Speedy Help for Rich & Poor iv. 142 What he throws up by Vomit, be black. 1732 J. Arbuthnot Pract. Rules of Diet iii. 307 It is easy to judge of the Cause by the Substances which the Patient throws up. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 695 Blood from the stomach..thrown up by vomiting. 1895 Southern Workman Dec. 210/2 He made a tea which acted as an emetic and the patient threw up a variety of reptiles. 1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. vi. 229 A child that is rationally fed and kept quiet for awhile after its suckling, will not usually ‘throw up’ its food. 1983 Guardian 15 July 14/3 A party of school children..were throwing up their breakfasts. 2004 Wall St. Jrnl. 11 Oct. (Central ed.) r9/4 They tried feeding her gummy bears, but she threw them up. b. transitive. In figurative slang phrases used to denote the act of vomiting, esp. copiously or violently. (a) to throw up one's accounts. Cf. to cast up one's accounts at cast v. Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΚΠ 1762 C. Johnstone Reverie I. xxvi. 102 Hitting him a plump in the bread-basket, that shall make [him] throw up his accounts. 1866 Congregationalist & Boston Recorder 2 Feb. 20/5 He [sc. a toad] turned over again and again, swelled, panted, and soon threw up his accounts. 1907 J. Macnab Mod. Going to Sea x. 91 Don't lean over the weather side to ‘throw up your accounts’. 1990 P. Gregory Meridon xxxii. 340 When I thought of the red weal on his cheek and him telling me of his Becky, I wanted to throw up my accounts. (b) U.S. to throw up one's toenails, boots, etc.. ΚΠ 1836 Jrnl. Belles Lettres 26 Apr. I vomited so terribly that one of the men expressed it as his opinion, if I continued, that ‘I must throw up my boots and toe nails’. 1856 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 30 Aug. 337/2 His boy got such a fit of laughing that he choked and threw up his boots. 1903 F. Palmer Vagabond xi. 106 Tim said when he threw up his boots that he thought he would feel better if he could throw up the keel of the ship. 1915 Dial. Notes 4 153 The egg was so bad I liked to throw up my heeltaps. 2016 L. McDaniel Losing Gabriel xvi. 98 I do recall that terrible feeling of wanting to puke... I thought I would throw up my toenails some days. (c) to throw up one's guts. ΚΠ 1899 Anaconda (Montana) Standard 18 July 14/2 Then Ross he threw up his guts. 1939 G. Hopkins tr. ‘J. Romains’ Verdun xxiii. 434 in Men of Good Will XVI A God-awful operation which made our eyes jump out of our heads, and set the fellows all round us throwing up their guts. 2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 22 Mar. 26 He threw his guts up at half-time and still played the game out. c. intransitive. colloquial. To vomit. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > digestive disorders > have digestive disorder [verb (intransitive)] > vomit spewc897 vomea1382 brake1393 perbreak?a1400 castc1440 envomish1480 parbreak1495 vomita1500 to cast the crawa1529 to cast (up), heave, spue up, vomit one's gorgea1529 galpa1535 to cast out1561 puke1586 purge1596 void1605 to jerk, shoot, whip the cat1609 rid1647 to flay the fox1653 posset1781 to shoot the cat1785 to throw up1793 throw1804 cascade1805 reject1822 yark1867 sick1924 to toss (also shoot, blow, etc.) one's cookies1927 to lose a dinner (or a meal)1941 to spew one's ring1949 chunder1950 barf1960 upchuck1960 yuck1963 ralph1966 to go for the big spit1967 vom1991 1793 Morning Chron. 20 Feb. 3/1 In what odd ways we taste misfortune's cup—While France throws down the gauntlet—Pitt throws up. 1832 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 133/1 We hope we did not throw up—but if we have made a clean stomach of it, so much the better for tiffin. 1887 V. Martin Let. in M. Collis Somerville & Ross (1968) iii. 44 He began to play with the favourite pug, finally dancing it round on its hind legs. It immediately threw up. 1934 T. Wilder Heaven's my Destination 6 He thought he was going to throw up. 1977 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/3 I'm not sure anyone else even noticed, but it upset me so much I threw up. 2015 K. Butler Pretty Ugly 275 Ray ran to the bathroom and threw up into the toilet. 5. transitive. a. To relinquish, abandon, give up (a task, occupation, responsibility, etc.). [Perhaps originally with allusion to to throw up one's cards at card n.2 Phrases 3e.] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ceasing > cease from (an action or operation) [verb (transitive)] aswikec975 linOE beleavec1175 forletc1175 i-swikec1175 restc1175 stutte?c1225 lina1300 blinc1314 to give overc1325 to do wayc1350 stintc1366 finisha1375 leavea1375 yleavec1380 to leave offa1382 refuse1389 ceasec1410 resigna1413 respite?a1439 relinquish1454 surcease1464 discontinue1474 unfill1486 supersede1499 desist1509 to have ado?1515 stop1525 to lay aside1530 stay1538 quata1614 to lay away1628 sist1635 quita1642 to throw up1645 to lay by1709 to come off1715 unbuckle1736 peter1753 to knock off1767 stash1794 estop1796 stow1806 cheese1811 to chuck itc1879 douse1887 nark1889 to stop off1891 stay1894 sling1902 can1906 to lay off1908 to pack in1934 to pack up1934 to turn in1938 to break down1941 to tie a can to (or on)1942 to jack in1948 to wrap it up1949 1645 J. Corbet Hist. Relation Mil. Govt. Gloucester 65 In most of the Officers a generall neglect of duty, who for the least check would throw up their Commissions. a1687 W. Petty Polit. Arithm. (1691) i. 33 To throw up their Husbandry, and make no use of their Lands, but for Grass [etc.]. 1745 W. Warburton Remarks Occas. Refl.: Pt. 2 181 God did not recede from the Art or Exercise of Governing; or did not throw up his Office. 1834 Leicester Chron. 18 Oct. The Barrister..must throw up his task so far as regarded this parish. 1889 C. Smith Repentance Paul Wentworth II. xii. 261 He decided to throw up his practice at the Bar. 1909 R. P. Dunn-Pattison Napoleon's Marshals (ed. 2) vi. 130 The prospect of further action..prevented him from throwing up his command. 1964 L. Woolf Beginning Again i. 47 I should sooner or later have to decide whether I would go back to the Ceylon Civil Service or throw the whole thing up. 2016 Daily Star (Nexis) 14 Oct. 32 My girlfriend is obsessed with us throwing up our jobs and going on a round-the-world adventure. b. Cards. to throw up the game (also one's hand): to retire from a game or hand; to fold. Also occasionally figurative: to give up a contest or struggle. Cf. to throw up one's cards at card n.2 Phrases 3e, to throw in one's hand at to throw in 10a at Phrasal verbs. Now rare. ΚΠ 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 225 Bad games are thrown-up too soon, Until th' are never to be won. 1708 tr. J. Ozanam Recreations Math. & Physical x. 44 If the Game is thrown up without playing this Sett, he claims the Half of these two Sums put together. 1804 Balance & Columbian Repository 31 July 242/3 Mesick threw up his hand. 1884 Albert Lea (Minnesota) Enterprise 16 May His antagonist drew three cards, and seemed on the point of throwing up his hand. 1963 Times 2 Mar. 10/7 William III did not throw up the game after the disappointment of Nijmegen in 1678. 1964 Guardian 24 Dec. 6/1 He knew he had absolutely no hope of beating the fat old pirate. So he threw up his hand. c. to throw up one's brief: (of a barrister) to decline to continue with a case; = to throw down one's brief at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal profession > practice law [verb (intransitive)] > practise at the bar > decline to go on with a case to throw up one's brief1731 to throw down one's brief1782 1731 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 539/1 The Evidence for the King being full and clear, the Defendants Council threw up their Briefs. 1782 Brit. Mag. & Rev. July 9/1 When he detected the knavery, he either threw up his brief, or compelled his client to consent to fair and equitable terms. 1807 Parl. Deb. 1st Ser. 9 37 He had heard rumours that he intended to have thrown up his brief. 1888 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 14 Apr. 82/1 His duty..was to have thrown up his brief, but not to have tendered himself as a witness. 1935 Financial Times 26 Oct. 6/6 He was compelled by ill health to throw up a brief in a High Court action about a fortnight ago. 1982 L. P. Wilkinson in Cambr. Hist. Classical Lit. (1996) II. xi. 250 The opposing counsel, Hortensius, threw up his brief..and Verres went into voluntary exile. 2004 Lawyers Weekly (Nexis) 6 Feb. A member of the bar has a right to throw up his brief without the court's consent. d. to throw up the sponge: see sponge n.1 1c. 6. transitive. a. Of a plant: to send out, develop (a shoot, bud, or other new growth). Cf. to throw out 3b at Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > grow, sprout, or bear fruit [verb (transitive)] > sprout or put forth new growth cast1340 burgeon1382 shoot1526 sprit1559 sprout1574 to put forth1592 to cast forth1611 to put out1614 emit1660 push1676 tiller1677 to throw out1733 to throw up1735 tillerate1762 flush1877 1735 W. Curteis in Philos. Trans. 1733–4 (Royal Soc.) 38 273 The Radicle taking hold of the Towe, it was enabled to throw up its Plume or Shoot. 1756 P. Browne Civil & Nat. Hist. Jamaica ii. ii. 199 It throws up a stem from the center of its leaves. 1842 J. C. Loudon Suburban Horticulturist 279 The branches of a coniferous plant pegged down to force it to throw up a stem-sucker as a leader. 1871 Christian Union 5 Apr. 219/1 It throws up a strong stem,..capped with a short spike of red and yellow flowers. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1167 A modest herb with a creeping stem, throwing up leafy shoots as in the meadow-grass. 1990 National Gardening June 26/1 The new [blackberry] varieties have lost the weedy tendency to throw up vigorous suckers in all directions. 2011 R. Fortey Survivors vi. 160 Selaginella is another lycopod, and when it ‘flowers’ it throws up little spore-bearing cones..on stalks. b. colloquial. To produce or provide (something); to raise (questions). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide, afford, or yield givec1200 providec1425 supporta1449 utter1547 yield1548 offer1550 afforda1568 servea1577 award1582 presenta1586 produce1585 deliver1605 officiate1667 furnish1754 to throw up1768 scale1853 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued I. i. 344 Howmuchsoever habit or fancy may have thrown up the ideas, The motions ensuing thereupon could not have been produced without the agency of the mind. 1832 Morning Chron. 4 Apr. These Irish Tithes are every day throwing up important questions of Constitutional law. 1854 Poultry Chron. 1 536/1 A partridge-coloured hen moulted last year but one, and threw up a few white feathers; but on moulting last year she threw up all white. 1912 Irish Times 13 Sept. 8/6 When you have a situation throwing up questions acutely, you have the ‘conflict’ which makes drama. 1981 M. Moorcock Byzantium Endures xii. 287 Russia was throwing up better women than men at that time. All the worthwhile men had been killed. 2006 R. Boyd et al. Polit. Confl. & Devel. in East Asia & Lat. Amer. p. viii The research process threw up a number of surprises. 7. transitive. Nautical. to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind: to turn (a ship) into the wind until it points almost directly to windward. Also (and in earliest use) intransitive, as to throw up in (also into, on) the wind: (of a ship) to turn in this way. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > luff or turn to windward luff1390 to spring one's luff1591 to clap on (or by) a wind1627 to close the wind1673 to haul the (her, our, etc.) wind1726 to come up1743 to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind1750 society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > luff or turn to windward luffa1616 to throw (a ship) up in (also into, on) the wind1750 bring to the wind1836 round1852 1750 Minutes Proc. Trial Rear-Admiral Knowles 20 After her Maintopmast came down, she threw up in the Wind, and I saw no more of her. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Donner vent devant, to throw a ship up in the wind, or in stays. 1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster III. x. 164 The Windsor Castle was thrown up on the wind. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple I. xvi. 269 We threw up in the wind. 1893 R. Kipling Rhyme of Three Sealers in Pall Mall Budget 14 Dec. 1948/1 The skipper smote his hand on his thigh and threw her up in the wind. 1940 R. G. Collingwood First Mate's Log vi. 56 He threw her up into the wind and anchored where there was a little patch of clear water. 8. intransitive. Hunting. Of a hound: to lift the head from the ground, having lost the scent. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > lose scent check1735 to throw up1789 1789 Diary; or, Woodfall's Reg. 4 Nov. When, strange to report,..the pack were close at her haunches, in almost the middle of the park,..that the hounds threw up. 1832 Q. Rev. Mar. 237 For heaven's sake, take care of my hounds in case they may throw up in the lane. 1893 Field 4 Feb. 170/2 Hounds suddenly threw up in a most unaccountable manner. 1925 Irish Times 14 Jan. 8/4 The pack threw up at the river. 1993 Country Life 18 Feb. 38/1 We galloped back to where hounds had thrown up. 9. transitive. colloquial. With to, at, against. To bring up (a fact, circumstance, subject, etc.) as a reproach. Also with that-clause as object. Cf. to cast up 9 at cast v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [verb (transitive)] > make subject of reproach exprobrate1543 engrieve1577 to throw up1815 1815 R. Findley Let. 6 Dec. in N. E. Eliason Tarheel Talk (1956) 300 Betsey..throwed up to me that I made a better bed for Sally then her little Betsey. 1870 ‘M. Twain’ in Galaxy July 139/1 He [sc. Benjamin Franklin] would work all day and then sit up nights..so that all other boys might have to do that also or else have Benjamin Franklin thrown up to them. 1890 Universal Rev. 15 Oct. 198 The children in the street throws it up against me I ain't got no father. 1957 R. Lawler Summer of 17th Doll i. i. 22 Every time he's away and we have a row, Emma throws him up at me like a dirty dish-cloth. 1998 T. Gorelick tr. S. Aleichem Nineteen to Dozen 20 Folks seem never to tire throwing up to me that one of my own relations..goes sashaying about in public in her very own hair, which she ain't pious enough to cut. 10. transitive. To render (something) prominent or distinct; to cause to stand out; to make noticeable by contrast. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colour relationships > [verb (transitive)] > show contrast to throw up1848 1848 tr. ‘P.-J. Stahl’ & A. de Musset in London Lit. Pioneer 7 Oct. 401/1 Where will you find such another moss-carpet, that throws up your colours in so marvellously becoming a manner? 1882 M. Oliphant Lit. Hist. Eng. I. vii. 288 A tender and visionary background to throw up and bring into full relief the figure that occupies the front of the picture. 1885 C. Monkhouse in Mag. of Art Sept. 474/2 The dado is darker..and throws up the rest effectively. 1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods ii. iv. 236 There was mist, brightly moonlit mist, filling the gorge. It threw up the figures of the two Utopians in black silhouette. 1990 Country Life 6 Sept. 108/1 The colour of the damask ground throws up the colours, weaves and textures of the brocading. 11. intransitive. Of a falcon, hawk, etc.: to rise rapidly after stooping, esp. as a means of reducing speed. Cf. main sense 11a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > action of hawk > [verb (intransitive)] > other actions tirec1220 beak1486 enseam1486 traverse1486 bind1575 crab1575 gleam1575 accost1596 canceleera1640 to wait on1773 to throw up1881 1881 Graphic 5 Nov. 470/3 I [sc. a falcon] stopped my downward course..spread my wings, and ‘threw up’ towards the upper air. 1900 E. B. Michell Art & Pract. Hawking viii. 128 Instead of throwing up high, as they would if they had missed, they check their flight quickly, and..descend rapidly on the panting or dazed foe. 1921 C. W. R. Knight Wild Life in Tree Tops (1922) iii. 42 The little hawk having again missed his mark would throw up, and turn again for another shot. 2008 T. Gallagher Falcon Fever (2009) xii. 176 He cut down a grouse in a puff of feathers, threw up high, then plummeted down after another one. < as lemmas |
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