'Tossing' definitions:

Definition of 'Tossing'

From: GCIDE
  • Tossing \Toss"ing\, n.
  • 1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mining) (a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. --Pryce. (b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Tossing'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. [1913 Webster]
  • He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. [1913 Webster]
  • We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest. --Act xxvii. 18. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To agitate; to make restless. [1913 Webster]
  • Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Hence, to try; to harass. [1913 Webster]
  • Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. --Herbert. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

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