TOAST

I. verb see: thirst Date: 14th century transitive verb to warm thoroughly, to make (as bread) crisp, hot, and brown by heat, intransitive verb to become ~ed, II. noun Date: 15th century 1. sliced bread browned on both sides by heat, food prepared with ~ed bread, 2. \from the use of pieces of spiced ~ to flavor drinks] a. a person whose health is drunk, something in honor of which persons usually drink, one that is highly admired , an act of proposing or of drinking in honor of a ~, a rhyming narrative poem existing in oral tradition among black Americans, one that is finished or done for , III. transitive verb Date: 1640 to propose or drink to as a ~