'T is Fate that flings the dice: and, as she flings,
Of kings makes peasants, and of peasants kings.
--Dryden.
He . . . like Jove, his lighting flung. --Dryden.
I know thy generous temper well. Fling but the
appearance of dishonor on it, It straight takes
fire. --Addison.
2. To shed forth; to emit; to scatter.
The sun begins to fling His flaring beams. --Milton.
Every beam new transient colors flings. --Pope.
3. To throw; to hurl; to throw off or down; to prostrate;
hence, to baffle; to defeat; as, to fling a party in
litigation.
His horse started, flung him, and fell upon him.
--Walpole.
2. To cast in the teeth; to utter abusive language; to sneer;
as, the scold began to flout and fling.
3. To throw one's self in a violent or hasty manner; to rush
or spring with violence or haste.
And crop-full, out of doors he flings. --Milton.
I flung closer to his breast, As sword that, after
battle, flings to sheath. --Mrs.
Browning.
{To fling out}, to become ugly and intractable; to utter
sneers and insinuations.
2. A severe or contemptuous remark; an expression of
sarcastic scorn; a gibe; a sarcasm.
I, who love to have a fling, Both at senate house
and king. --Swift.
3. A kind of dance; as, the Highland fling.
4. A trifing matter; an object of contempt. [Obs.]
England were but a fling Save for the crooked stick
and the gray goose wing. --Old Proverb.
{To have one's fling}, to enjoy one's self to the full; to
have a season of dissipation. --J. H. Newman. ``When I was
as young as you, I had my fling. I led a life of
pleasure.'' --D. Jerrold.