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What's The Definition Of 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.
\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.
\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.