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TOSS, pret. and pp. 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 .

5. To move one way and the other. Proverbs 21

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, 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, n. 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.