Crossword clues for tossing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. ]
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.
He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay.
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To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
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To agitate; to make restless.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
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Hence, to try; to harass.
Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
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To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham. To toss off,
to drink hastily.
to accomplish easily or quickly.
to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.
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to masturbate; -- British slang.
To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.
Tossing \Toss"ing\, n.
The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
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(Mining)
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.A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Wiktionary
(context vulgar colloquial English) Used to disparage or curse someone or something. n. 1 The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling. 2 (context mining English) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; toze. 3 A process for refine tin by dropping it through the air while melted. v
(present participle of toss English)
WordNet
adj. thrown from side to side; "a tossing ship" [syn: agitated]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "tossing".
McDermitt shut his eyes for an instant after tossing a grenade to the deck of the aft compartment.
Beyond that tossing waste of water he knew Alata lay and although he realized that the centuries of his life had brought inevitable change, he was filled with such a longing for the land of his birth that it seemed his heart would burst.
He and the Viking are now the straightest of friends, spending their off-hours tossing down the most expensive spirits that the auberge can supply and speculating on the quality of female consolation that might be available in the By-and-By.
Tossing and shivering, shaking its head, and bellowing again as if the sound in some way made its transformation more permanent, I realised that I had made a terrible mistake, and that I was ridingon theback of awild animal, awoken fromafetishisticsleep.
Line after line, and rank after rank, they choked the neck of the valley with a long vista of tossing pennons, twinkling lances, waving plumes and streaming banderoles, while the curvets and gambades of the chargers lent a constant motion and shimmer to the glittering, many-colored mass.
Better, far better, had I resisted the calls of my country, and remained with you, than to return and find my happiness gone, and my family beggared, and tossing on the rough billows of adversity, unheeded by the wealthy, and unfriended by all.
After Boots had clumped out, Blok turned his attention to the canvases over by the easel and began to go through them, tossing them aside in his fearful search for any more such drawings as on the scraps of paper clenched in his hand.
Since he was fourteen, Bora could tell the weight and balance of a stone by tossing it thrice in either hand.
The picture had careened as Robbie had entered the restaurant, tossing off morning greetings with characteristic brio to the owner and several members of the staff.
In catching the names they were tossing around, it appeared that the deceased one was called Bubo, and the tall man was Walker.
Davey went to work next morning with a spade, tossing gravel against a sloping screen, while Buglet knelt in the dust to scrabble for artifacts.
With a final growl to reassure his supporters, and callously tossing aside anyone in his way, Bungo made his way toward Wulfgar.
The Professor was ashore, hacking at brush with a hand axe, and tossing particularly leafy clumps and branches back up onto the deck.
A long white line of foam sped from the darkness, a great comber whose top was the tossing manes of hundreds of white horses.
A ragged man who might have been a farm-tramp or a rich planter before his capture had gotten a bale of cloth open and was tossing rags around while the chief engineer inspected weapons and showed people how to clean out the cosmoline and fill their spare magazines.