TOSS
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Toss (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (&unr_;); (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.
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2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
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He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,
He would not stay.
Addison.
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3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
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We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
Act xxvii. 18.
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4. To agitate; to make restless.
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Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
Milton.
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5. Hence, to try; to harass.
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Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
Herbert.
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6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] Ascham.
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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.
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Toss, v. i. 1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
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To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.
Tillotson.
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2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak.
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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.
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2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.
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