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To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm
of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. |
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To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as,
to toss the head. |
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To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves
in a storm. |
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To agitate; to make restless. |
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Hence, to try; to harass. |
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To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years
in tossing the rules of grammar. |
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To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write;
to fling. |
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To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. |
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A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as,
the toss of a ball. |
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A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the
head with a jerk. |