See, how they toss, with animated rage Recovering all they lost!That eager haste Some doubling wile foreshews.

Shrewd maters watch Phyllis and Bessie and Fred, Each smile and each look and each toss of the head, And wonder and ponder and figure and scheme, While fortune and fashion 'gainst love tip the beam.

Against the sky in the west, where still lingered the sunset gold, we saw the wild toss of the horizon, shaggy with forest and cliff, gripping the heart like the motive in a symphony, and sending the sense of beauty all a-shiver through the mindall these surrounding islands standing above the water like low clouds, and like them seeming to post along silently into the engulfing night.

Hubbard, I'll toss you which you do in the morning and which I do!"

He lost the toss.

V. be impatient &c adj.; not be able to bear &c 826; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew &c n.; be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.

[Pope], carry with a high hand; ride the high horse, mount on one's high horse; set one's back up, bridle, toss the head; give oneself airs &c (assume) 885; boast &c 884. pride oneself on; glory in, take a pride in; pique oneself, plume oneself, hug oneself; stand upon, be proud of; put a good face on; not hide one's light under a bushel, not put one's talent in a napkin; not think small beer of oneself &c (vanity) 880.

[Pope]; whistle at, sneer at; curl up one's lip, toss the head, traiter de haut enbas

[Scot.], whisky, xeres^. drunkard, sot, toper, tippler, bibber^, wine-bibber, lush; hard drinker, gin drinker, dram drinker; soaker [Slang], sponge, tun; love pot, toss pot; thirsty soul, reveler, carouser, Bacchanal, Bacchanalian; Bacchal^, Bacchante^; devotee to Bacchus^; bum [U.S.], guzzler, tavern haunter.

liquor, liquor up; wet one's whistle, take a whet; crack a bottle, pass the bottle; toss off &c (drink up) 298; go to the alehouse, go to the public house. make one drunk &c adj.; inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle^, get into one's head.

At night, burning with fever, he would toss about, calling on her wildly; then he would get up and write to her to come back at once.

"Who cares?" said Sharley, with a toss of her soft, brown head.

Were it not for the occasional stamp of her fore leg, or the impatient side-toss of the head, to keep off the swarming flies, she might be carved out of marble.

Perhaps I'd better move it or he may not think it's there, and toss it out on the floor.

caballería, f., horse, mount, saddlehorse, chivalry; pl., chivalrous deeds. caballero, m., knight, gentleman, lord, sir. cabecear, to nod; to shake (or toss) the head.

"When a handsome young man and a good-looking girl" "Do you want to buy anything or not?" demanded Miss Kybird, with an impatient toss of her head.

"I am very sorry, sir, to have to speak to you upon such a subject, but I must say, that the profane songs, sir, which our house is not at all accustomed to them; not to mention that at your time of life, and in your position, sir, as my husband's assistant, though there's no saying (with a meaning toss of the head) how long it may last,"and there, her grammar having got into a hopeless knot, she stopped.

I'll cure you for half-a-crown, and toss you up double or quits.

He hesitated again on the brink of speech, before, with a toss of his leonine head as if he were veritably leaving fate's affairs to fate, he turned to go; and Jack mechanically touched P.D.'s rein, while he gazed toward the pass.

"I have fulfilled my obligation," said the eagle, with a proud toss of his head.

But I cannot tell how to make you visible; you vanish away when I gaze at you, and I cannot net you in the meshes of beautiful verse!" Again and again he tried to write poems, tragedies, romances; but his indolence, his lack of ideas, his fastidiousness brought him to a standstill before half a dozen lines were written, and he would toss the all but virgin page into the fire.

A little afterwards the storm began to toss them also about very violently, to such a degree that the owner of the ship, who was also the pilot, got into a little boat, and from that he guided the ship as well as he could by the rope by which the boat was fastened to the ship, and so towed along; but the man to whom the cargo belonged threw himself on his sword in despair.

Who knows if Jove, who counts our score, Will toss us in a morning more?

methinks, even now, I can hear your music, when fanned by the summer breeze, or see you toss your surging branches, when rocked by the autumnal gale.

"The preterits of pluck, look, and toss, are, in speech, pronounced pluckt, lookt, tosst."Fowler corrected.