TOSS

vi to be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.

2. toss ·vt hence, to try; to harass.

3. toss ·vt to agitate; to make restless.

4. toss ·vt to cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

5. toss ·vt to lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.

6. toss ·noun a throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.

7. toss ·noun a throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.

8. toss ·vt to keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.

9. toss ·vi to roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.

10. toss ·vt to throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.