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▪ I. ˈtossing, vbl. n.
[-ing1.]
The action of toss v. in various senses. Also with adv.
1557[see toss v. 3 b]. 1578Lyte Dodoens 367 The other..stirreth vp tossinges, wamlings, windinesse, and vomiting. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 173 When Basilius after long tossing was gotten a sleepe. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. x. 174 Like the tossing of a pike, which is..to shew the strength and nimblenesse of the arm. 1711Addison Spect. No. 63 ⁋1 The Tossings and Fluctuations of the Sea. 1801Sporting Mag. XIX. 115 No cards, dice, odd-horse or tossing-up to be permitted.
b. attrib.: † tossing iron, some cooking utensil; tossing-pan, a pan for tossing food in cooking.
a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize ii. v, They heave ye stool on stool, and fling main pot-lids Like massy rocks, dart ladles, tossing irons And tongs like thunder-bolts. 1769Mrs. Raffald Eng. Housekpr. (1778) 75 Put them all in your tossing-pan, and shake it over the fire till it boils, then put in your woodcock. 1796H. Glasse Cookery v. 47 Put it into a tossing-pan with a tea-spoonful of lemon-pickle.
▪ II. ˈtossing, ppl. a.
[f. toss v. + -ing2.]
That tosses: see the vb.
1575Gamm. Gurton ii. iv, My goodly tossing sporyars neele, chaue lost ich wot not where. 1742Young Nt. Th. i. 167 How I dreamt..Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave! 1816J. Wilson City of Plague ii. iv. 106 Beside the couch of tossing agony. 1896‘H. S. Merriman’ Flotsam iv, A fine boy with tossing fair curls.
Hence ˈtossingly adv.
1620Thomas Lat. Dict., Volutatim..rollingly, tumblingly, tossingly. |