| toss | 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. To toss off, to drink hastily. To toss the cars.See Oar. Origin: W. Tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| tossily | In a tossy manner. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tossing | 1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling. 2. <chemical> A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| tossy | Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |