| • | To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball. |
| • | To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head. |
| • | To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. |
| • | To agitate; to make restless. |
| • | Hence, to try; to harass. |
| • | To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. |
| • | To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling. |
| • | To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean. |
| • | A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball. |
| • | A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. |