- W. tosiawtosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch.
- To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
- 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.
- To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
- To agitate; to make restless.Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
- Hence, to try; to harass.Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
- To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.Obs
