Toss /(?)/

Toss

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Tossed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
    — Act xxvii. 18.
  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.]

Phrases & Compounds
To toss off
to drink hastily.
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.

Phrases & Compounds
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.

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.