Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TOSS, v.t. [pret. and pp. tossed or tost. W. tosiaw, to toss, to jerk. Qu. G. stossen, to thrust.]

1. To throw with the hand; particularly, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
2. To throw with violence. Shak.
3. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head; or to toss up the head. He toss'd his arm aloft. Addison.
4. To cause to rise and fall; as, to be tossed on the waves. We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest. Acts xxvii.
5. To move one way and the other. Prov. xxi.
6. To agitate; to make restless. Calm region once, / And fall of peace, now fast and turbulent. Milton.
7. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. Ascham.