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.
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 (?), 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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