Throat"band` (?), n. Same as Throatlatch.
Throat"boll` (?), n. [Throat + boll a ball.] The Adam's apple in the
neck. [Obs. or R.]
By the throatboll he caught Aleyn.
Chaucer.
Throat"ing, n. (Arch.) A drip, or drip molding.
Throat"latch` (?), n. A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing
under a horse's throat.
Throat"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A plant (Campanula Trachelium) formerly
considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped
corolla.
Throat"y (?), a. Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard,
throaty words." Howell.
Throb (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Throbbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Throbbing.] [OE. þrobben; of uncertain origin; cf. Russ. trepete a
trembling, and E. trepidation.] To beat, or pulsate, with more than
usual force or rapidity; to beat in consequence of agitation; to
palpitate; — said of the heart, pulse, etc.
My heart Throbs to know one thing.
Shak.
Here may his head lie on my throbbing breast.
Shak.
Throb, n. A beat, or strong pulsation, as of the heart and arteries; a
violent beating; a papitation:
The impatient throbs and longings of a soul That pants and reaches
after distant good.
Addison.
Throd"den (?), v. i. [Prov. E. throdden, throddle, fat, thriving; cf.
Icel. throask to grow.] To grow; to thrive. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
Throe (?), n. [OE. þrowe, þrawe, AS. þreá a threatening, oppression,
suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel. þr a throe, a pang, a longing;
cf. AS. þreowian to suffer.] 1. Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish;
agony; especially, one of the pangs of travail in childbirth, or
purturition.
Prodogious motion felt, and rueful throes.
Milton.