Toss

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

II. Toss ·vt Hence, to try; to Harass.

III. Toss ·vt To Agitate; to make restless.

IV. Toss ·vt To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

V. Toss ·vt To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

VI. Toss ·noun A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

VII. Toss ·noun A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

VIII. Toss ·vt To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

IX. Toss ·vi To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to Write; to Fling.

X. Toss ·vt To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.

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