Toss
Toss , transitive verb
[ Welsh 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.
3.
To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
4.
To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
5.
Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
6.
To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obsolete] — Ascham
Collocations (2)
To toss off , (a) to drink hastily. (b) to accomplish easily or quickly. (c) to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment. (d) to masturbate; -- British slang.
To toss the cars , See under Oar, n.
Toss , intransitive verb
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 enrages our pain.
2.
To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. — Shakespeare
Collocations (2)
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
Toss , noun
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