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Webster's English Dictionary

toss

v. t. [ 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 tempest. (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. (Ascham.)

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. ()

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 enrages 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. ()

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.)