fling

FLING, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive flung. [Latin lego legare.] 1. To cast, send or throw from the hand; to hurl; as, to fling a stone at a bird. Tis fate that flings the dice; and as she flings, Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants, kings. 2. To dart; to cast with violence; to send forth. He - like Jove, his lightning flung. 3. To send forth; to emit; to scatter. Every beam new transient colors flings. 4. To throw; to drive by violence. 5. To throw to the ground; to prostrate. The wrestler flung his antagonist. 6. To baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in litigation. To fling away, to reject; to discard. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition. 1. To fling down, to demolish; to ruin. 2. To throw to the ground. To fling out, to utter; to speak; as, to fling out hard words against another. To fling off, to baffle in the chase, to defeat of prey. To fling in, to throw in; to make an allowance or deduction, or not to charge in an account. In settling accounts, one party flings in a small sum, or a few days work. To fling open, to throw open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design. FLING, verb intransitive 1. To flounce; to wince; to fly into violent and irregular motions. The horse began to kick and fling 2. To cast in the teeth; to utter harsh language; to sneer; to upbraid. The scold began to flout and fling To fling out, to grow unruly or outrageous. FLING, noun 1. A throw; a cast from the hand. 2. A gibe; a sneer; a sarcasm; a severe or contemptuous remark. I, who love to have a fling Both at senate house and king.