What is "tost"

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.

2. 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.
   --Addison.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.

   We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest.
   --Act xxvii. 18.

4. To agitate; to make restless.

   Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
   --Milton.

5. Hence, to try; to harass.

   Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
   --Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham. To toss off,

   1. to drink hastily.

   2. to accomplish easily or quickly.

   3. to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.

   4. to masturbate; -- British slang.

      To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

Tost \Tost\, imp. & p. p. of Toss.

vb. (context obsolete English) (en-past of: toss)

Tost may refer to:

• David Tost (David Origanus, 1588-1628), German astronomer from Silesia
• Tost, German exonym for Toszek, a town in Silesia, Poland
• Bagel toast
• Tost, an Irish poem by Seán Ó Ríordáin