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Bible Dictionaries
Toast
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
(2):
(v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
(3):
(v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
(4):
(v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; - so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
(5):
(v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
(6):
(v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Toast'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/toast.html. 1828.
