Hypertext Webster Gateway: "toss"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Toss \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. --Swift.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Toss \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 enreges our pain. --Tillotson.

2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. --Shak.

{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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Toss \Toss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tossed} ; (less properly
{Tost} ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tossing}.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to
jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]
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. --Addison.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves
in a storm.

We being exceedingly tossed with a tempeat. --Act
xxvii. 18.

4. To agitate; to make restless.

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

5. Hence, to try; to harass.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
--Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years
in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham.

{To toss off}, to drink hastily.

{To toss the cars}.See under Oar, n.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

toss
n 1: the act of flipping a coin [syn: {flip}]
2: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of
your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: {pass}, {flip}]
v 1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball";
"toss me newspaper" [syn: {flip}, {sky}, {pitch}]
2: lightly throw to see which side comes up, as of coins; "I
don't know what to do--I may as well flip a coin!" [syn: {flip}]
3: throw carelessly; "chuck the ball" [syn: {chuck}]
4: move or stir about violently; The feverish patient thrashed
around in his bed" [syn: {convulse}, {thresh}, {thresh
about}, {thrash}, {thrash about}, {slash}]
5: throw or cast away; "Put away your worries" [syn: {discard},
{fling}, {toss out}, {toss away}, {chuck out}, {cast
aside}, {dispose}, {throw out}, {cast out}, {throw away},
{cast away}, {put away}]
6: agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough" [syn:
{stir}]

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