Category:Toss

Toss

Defn:, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed ((less properly tost ); p. pr. & Vb. n. Tossing.] Etym: [ w. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, Tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]

1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the Hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss The head. He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, he would not stay. Addison.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a Storm. We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat. Act xxvii. 18.

4. To agitate; to make restless. Calm region once, and full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton.

5. Hence, to try; to harass. Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in Tossing the rules of grammar. [obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink Hastily. -- to toss the cars.See Under oar, n.

Toss Toss, v. i.

1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to Fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our Pain. Tillotson.

2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw Dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for. -- to toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side It will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.

Toss Toss, n.

1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the Toss of a ball.

2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head With a jerk. Swift.