Toss

Definition of Toss

v. t.

To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

[imp. & p. p. Tossed ( ); (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.]

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.

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.

To agitate; to make restless.

Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.

- Milton.

Hence, to try; to harass.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

- Herbert.

To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

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.

v. i.

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.

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. - Bramsion.

A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

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