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tost toss的过去.过去分词 toss的过去.过去分词 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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. [ 1913 Webster] He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me, He would not stay. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. [ 1913 Webster] We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest. -- Act xxvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To agitate; to make restless. [ 1913 Webster] Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Hence, to try; to harass. [ 1913 Webster] Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men. -- Herbert. [ 1913 Webster] 6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. [ Obs.] -- Ascham. [ 1913 Webster] { To toss off}, ( a) to drink hastily. ( b) to accomplish easily or quickly. ( c) to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment. ( d) to masturbate; -- British slang. { To toss the cars}. See under Oar, n. [ 1913 Webster]
Tost \ Tost\, imp. & p. p. of Toss. [ 1913 Webster]
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