Word Meanings - TOSS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: TOSS

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. Ascham. To toss off, to drink hastily. -- To toss the cars.See under Oar, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOSS)

• Fling
• Cast
• throw
• emit
• toss
• hurl
• ejaculate
• Throw
• cast
• project
• propel

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TOSS)

• Recal
• withdraw
• draw
• retract
• pull
• attract
• rebound
• recoil
• adduce
• revert
• rebate

Related words: (words related to TOSS)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• FLUXATION
  The act of fluxing.
• FLUXILITY
  State of being fluxible.
• FLORESCENT
  Expanding into flowers; blossoming. (more info) blossom, incho. fr. florere to blossom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See
• FLORA
  The goddess of flowers and spring.
• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• FLORENTINE
  Belonging or relating to Florence, in Italy. Florentine mosaic, a mosaic of hard or semiprecious stones, often so chosen and arranged that their natural colors represent leaves, flowers, and the like, inlaid in a background, usually of black or
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• FLAXWEED
  See TOADFLAX
• FLIPPER
  A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, sea turtles, whales, etc.
• FLOTA
  A fleet; especially, a
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• FLATTEN
  To lower the pitch of; to cause to sound less sharp; to let fall from the pitch. To flatten a sail , to set it more nearly fore-and-aft of the vessel. -- Flattening oven, in glass making, a heated chamber in which split glass cylinders
• FLET
  Skimmed.
• FLEAMY
  Bloody; clotted. Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.
• FLUENCE
  Fluency. Milton.
• FLUOR SPAR
  See FLUORITE
• FLUVIAL
  Belonging to rivers; growing or living in streams or ponds; as, a fluvial plant.
• DEFLOURER
  One who deflours; a ravisher.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• DEFLUX
  Downward flow. Bacon.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• DEFLUOUS
  Flowing down; falling off. Bailey.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• CHIEFLESS
  Without a chief or leader.