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tossing |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tossing \Toss"ing\, n. 1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling. 2. (Mining) a 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. --Pryce. b A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted. 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]: tossing adj : thrown from side to side "a tossing ship" [syn: {agitated}]
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