Toss
TOSS, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive 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 27:18.
5. To move one way and the other. Proverbs 21:6.
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 intransitive 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.