[UP- 4. Cf. THROW v.1 48.]
1. trans. To throw or cast upwards; to toss or fling up.
c. 1614. Sir W. Mure, Dido & Æneas, II. 276. Both heards of Hart and Hinde … with feet the dust vpthroe.
1748. Thomson, Cast. Indol., I. xxvii. The fountain … That in the middle of the court up-threw A stream.
1750. Collins, Superstit. Highlands, 144. A Pigmy-folk … Whose bones the delver with his spade upthrows.
1819. Byron, Juan, II. xxix. Fifty tons of water were upthrown By them per hour.
1875. Morris, Æneid, X. 844. [He] both his hands upthrew Toward heaven.
† b. To cast up (the eyes). Obs.–1
1600. Fairfax, Tasso, XVII. lxxv. Of Almerike the image … that vpthrew His eies, like one that vs’d to contemplate.
† 2. = UPTEAR v. Obs.–1
1627. Drayton, Moon-Calf, 163. The Tempest so outragious grew, That it whole hedgerowes by the roots vp threw.
