Toss
- n. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
- v. t. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
- v. t. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
- v. t. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
- v. t. To agitate; to make restless.
- v. t. Hence, to try; to harass.
- v. t. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
- v. i. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
- v. i. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
- n. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.