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 tempeat. 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. Ascham.
To toss off, to drink hastily. — To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.