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Webster 1913 Edition

Throe

Throe

,
Noun.
[OE.
þrowe
,
þrawe
, AS.
þreá
a threatening, oppression, suffering, perhaps influenced by Icel.
þrā
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.
2.
A tool for splitting wood into shingles; a frow.

Throe

,
Verb.
I.
To struggle in extreme pain; to be in agony; to agonize.

Throe

,
Verb.
T.
To put in agony.
[R.]
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition

Throe

THROE

,
Noun.
Extreme pain; violent pang; anguish; agony. It is particularly applied to the anguish of travail in child-birth.
My throes came thicker, and my cries increas'd.

THROE

,
Verb.
I.
To agonize; to struggle in extreme pain.

THROE

,
Verb.
T.
To put in agony.

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