toast1 (tost)

[Early mod. E. toste; Go fetch me a quart of sack; put a toast in 't. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 5. 3. toast1 (tōst), v. [Early mod. E. also toste; tostado, toasted); from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To brown by the heat of a fire: as, to toast bread or bacon. 'Tis time I were choked with a piece of toasted cheese. Shak., M. W. of W., v. 5. 147. 2. To warm thoroughly: as, to toast one's feet. [Colloq.] Around these fires the more idle of the swarthy fellows squatted, and toasted their bare shins while they spun their wondrous tales. The Century, XXXVI. 323. II. in trans. 1. To brown with heat. There is a whiff of something floating about, suggestive of toasting shingles. O. W. Holmes, Profe or, vii. 2. To warm one's self thoroughly at a fire. As we tosted by the fire. W. Browne , Shepherd's Pipe, i.