Hypertext Webster Gateway: "flung"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fling \Fling\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Flung}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Flinging}.] [OE. flingen, flengen, to rush, hurl; cf. Icel.
flengia to whip, ride furiously, OSw. flenga to strike, Sw.
fl["a]nga to romp, Dan. flenge to slash.]
1. To cast, send, to throw from the hand; to hurl; to dart;
to emit with violence as if thrown from the hand; as, to
fing a stone into the pond.

'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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Flung \Flung\,
imp. & p. p. of {Fling}.

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