Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TOAST, n.

1. Bread dried and scorched by the fire; or such bread dipped in melted butter, or in some liquor. Dry toast is bread scorched, or it is scorched bread with butter spread upon it. Soft toast is made by immersing toasted bread in melted butter, and called dipped toast.
2. A female whose health is drank in honor or respect. The wise man's passion, and the vain man's toast. Pope.
3. He or that which is named in honor in drinking.