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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toss \Toss\, n. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toss \Toss\, v. i. 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 enreges our pain. --Tillotson. 2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. --Shak. {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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Toss \Toss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tossed} ; (less properly {Tost} ); p. pr & vb n. {Tossing}.] [ W. 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. --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. [Obs.] --Ascham. {To toss off}, to drink hastily. {To toss the cars}.See under Oar, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: toss n 1: the act of flipping a coin [syn: {flip}] 2: (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team; "the pass was fumbled" [syn: {pass}, {flip}] v 1: throw or toss with a light motion; "flip me the beachball"; "toss me newspaper" [syn: {flip}, {sky}, {pitch}] 2: as of coins [syn: {flip}] 3: throw carelessly; "chuck the ball" [syn: {chuck}] 4: beat about [syn: {convulse}, {thresh}, {thresh about}, {thrash}, {thrash about}, {slash}] 5: throw or cast away "Put away your worries" [syn: {discard}, {fling}, {toss out}, {toss away}, {chuck out}, {cast aside}, {dispose}, {throw out}, {cast out}, {throw away}, {cast away}, {put away}] 6: agitate; "toss the salad"; "stir nuts into the dough" [syn: {stir}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: TOSS {Terminal Oriented Social Science}
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