Toast

·vt To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.

II. Toast ·vt To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

III. Toast ·vt To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.

IV. Toast ·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.

V. Toast ·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.

VI. Toast ·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.