Toss
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [1]
primarily "to fan a fire" (rhipis, "a fan," cp. rhipe, "twinkling"), then, "to make a breeze," is used in the Passive Voice in James 1:6 , "tossed," of the raising of waves by the wind.
signifies "to be tossed by billows" (kludon, "a billow"); metaphorically, in Ephesians 4:14 , of an unsettled condition of mind influenced and agitated by one false teaching and another, and characterized by that immaturity which lacks the firm conviction begotten by the truth. In the Sept., Isaiah 57:20 .
Acts 27:18Labor
King James Dictionary [2]
TOSS, pret. and pp. tossed or tost.
1. To throw with the hand particularly, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward as, to toss a ball. 2. To throw with violence. 3. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion as, to toss the head or to toss up the head.
He toss'd his arm aloft.
4. To cause to rise and fall as, to be tossed on the waves.
We, being exceedingly tossed with a tempest-- Acts 27 .
5. To move one way and the other. Proverbs 21 6. To agitate to make restless.
Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tost and turbulent.
7. To keep in play to tumble over as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
TOSS, To fling to roll and tumble to writhe to be in violent commotion.
To toss and fling, and to be restless, only frets and enrages our pain.
1. To be tossed.
To toss up, is to throw a coin into the air and wager on what side it will fall.
TOSS, n. A throwing upward or with a jerk the act of tossing as the toss of a ball.
1. A throwing up of the head a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. It is much applied to horses, and may be applied to an affected manner of raising the head in men.
Webster's Dictionary [3]
(1): ( v. t.) To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm.
(2): ( v. t.) To agitate; to make restless.
(3): ( v. t.) To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a ball.
(4): ( v. t.) Hence, to try; to harass.
(5): ( v. t.) To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar.
(6): ( v. i.) To roll and tumble; to be in violent commotion; to write; to fling.
(7): ( v. i.) To be tossed, as a fleet on the ocean.
(8): ( n.) A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of tossing; as, the toss of a ball.
(9): ( n.) A throwing up of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk.
(10): ( v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head.
