Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.