Toss (?)
, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (); (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] [ 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.
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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.
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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.
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