TOASTING
toasting, browning
(noun) cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill; “proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
toasting
present participle of toast
Noun
toasting (plural toastings)
The action of making a toast (celebratory call to drink).
The heating of oak panels used to make wine barrels.
The process by which something, such as bread, is toasted.
Anagrams
• Angottis, Tsingtao, tangoist
Source: Wiktionary
Toast"ing,
Definition: a. & n. from Toast, v. Toasting fork, a long-handled fork for toasting bread, cheese, or the like, by the fire.
TOAST
Toast, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.] Etym: [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See Torrid.]
1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
Toast, n. Etym: [OF. toste, or tostée, toasted bread. See Toast, v.]
1. Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc. toaster. My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught. T. Warton.
2. A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink;
– so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy. It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia. Fielding.
3. Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc. Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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