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TOSSING
Verb
tossing
present participle of toss
Noun
tossing (plural tossings)
The motion of something that tosses; a throwing or sudden rising and falling.
(mining) The process of washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earthy particles; tozing.
A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
Adjective
tossing (not comparable)
(vulgar, colloquial) Used to disparage or curse someone or something.
I can't get this tossing program to work.
Source: Wiktionary
Toss"ing, n.
1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.
2. (Mining) (a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce. (b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.
TOSS
Toss
Definition: , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] Etym: [ 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. [Obs.] Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily.
– To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.
Toss, v. i.
1. To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling. To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enreges our pain. Tillotson.
2. To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. Shak. To toss for, to throw dice or a coin to determine the possession of; to gamble for.
– To toss up, to throw a coin into the air, and wager on which side it will fall, or determine a question by its fall. Bramsion.
Toss, n.
1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
2. A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. Swift.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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