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Webster 1913 Edition

Toss

Toss

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tossed
; (less properly
Tost
);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tossing
.]
[ W.
tosiaw
,
tosio
, to jerk, toss, snatch,
tos
a 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 tempest.
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
,
(a)
to drink hastily.
(b)
to accomplish easily or quickly.
(c)
to say in an offhand manner;
as, to
toss off
a comment
.
(d)
to masturbate; – British slang.
–
To toss the cars
.
See under Oar,
Noun.

Toss

,
Verb.
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 enrages 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

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Toss

TOSS

,
Verb.
T.
pret. and pp. tossed or tost.
1.
To throw with the hand; particularly, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
2.
To throw with violence.
3.
To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head; or to toss up the head.
He toss'd his arm aloft.
4.
To cause to rise and fall; as, to be tossed on the waves.
We, being exceedingly tossed with a tempest-- Acts 27.
5.
To move one way and the other. Prov.21.
6.
To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tost and turbulent.
7.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

TOSS

,
Verb.
I.
To fling; to roll and tumble; to writhe; to be in violent commotion.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.
1.
To be tossed.
To toss up, is to throw a coin into the air and wager on what side it will fall.

TOSS

,
Noun.
A throwing upward or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as the toss of a ball.
1.
A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. It is much applied to horses, and may be applied to an affected manner of raising the head in men.

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