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Toss   /tɔs/   Listen
noun
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.


verb
Toss  v. t.  (past & past part. tossed, less properly tost; pres. part. tossing)  
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."
3.
To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. "We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest."
4.
To agitate; to make restless. "Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent."
5.
Hence, to try; to harass. "Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men."
6.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. (Obs.)
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, n.


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 enrages our pain."
2.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
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.





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"Toss" Quotes from Famous Books



... would have dismissed the whole subject from my mind if my eyes had not detected at that moment on one of the tables an unusually thin paper-knife. This gave me an idea. Carrying it back with me into the recess, I got down on my knees, and first taking the precaution to toss a little stick-pin of mine under the cabinet to be reached after in case I was detected there by Nixon, I insinuated the cutter between the base-board and the floor and found that I could not only push it in an ...
— The Mayor's Wife • Anna Katharine Green
... earliest youth so riotous and wild, that he was often severely scourged by his father. He was said to run about in the night-time, and seize upon any one he met, who was either drunk or too feeble to make resistance, and toss him in a blanket [673]. After his father's death, to make his court the more effectually to a freedwoman about the palace, who was in great favour, he pretended to be in love with her, though she was old, and almost decrepit. Having ...
— The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars, Complete - To Which Are Added, His Lives Of The Grammarians, Rhetoricians, And Poets • C. Suetonius Tranquillus
... a wanderer far away From England, from England, Will toss upon his couch and say— Though Spain is proud and France is gay, And there's many a foot on the primrose way, The world has never a Queen o' the May ...
— Collected Poems - Volume One (of 2) • Alfred Noyes
... hills of Newbury rolling away, With the many tints of the season gay, Dreamily blending in autumn mist Crimson and gold and amethyst. Long and low, with dwarf trees crowned, Plum Island lies, like a whale aground, A stone's toss over the narrow sound. Inland, as far as the eye can go, The hills curve round, like a bended bow; A silver arrow from out them sprung, I see the shine of the Quasycung; And, round and round, over valley ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 • Various
... said Sancho, "see what marten and sable, and pads of carded cotton he is putting into the bags, that our heads may not be broken and our bones beaten to jelly! But even if they are filled with toss silk, I can tell you, senor, I am not going to fight; let our masters fight, that's their lookout, and let us drink and live; for time will take care to ease us of our lives, without our going to look for fillips so that they ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


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