tossy (tosi)

[ Argemone answered by some to y commonplace. Kingsley, Yeast, vii. ( Davies .) to y-tail (tos'i-tal), adv . Topsyturvy. Halli well . [Prov. Eng.] tost (tost). Another spelling of to ed , preterit and past participle of to . tostamente (tos-ta-men'te), adv . [It., tos to , quick, bold.] In music , quickly; rapidly. [Rare.] To to up, to throw up a coin, and decide something by tostartt, v. i. [ME. tosterten; He to ed up whether he should hang or drown. The coin fell on its edge in the clay, and saved his life for that time. were sent to the bat. J. Ashton, Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, II. 35. The catcher of the senior nine to ed up , and the juniors St. Nicholas , XVII. 944. to (tos), n. [ to (rare); to , v .] 1. A sudden fling or jerk; especially, a quick movement of the head backward or upward. suit There is hardly a polite sentence in the following dialogues which does not absolutely require some able to of the head. Swift , Polite Conversation, Int. Anon, with to of horn and tail,... They leap some farmer's broken pale. Whittier, The Drovers. 2. A pitch; a throw: as, the to of a ball or a coin. 3. The distance over which one to es anything; a throw. No 2 Brick Court, Middle Temple, cuit to from Crown Office Row. was but a bis To start or spring apart; burst. Lo, myn herte, It spredeth so for joie, it wol tosterte. Chaucer , Troilus, ii. 980. tosticated, to icated (tos'ti-, tos'i-ka-ted), a . [A reduction of intoxicated , and confused, in def. 2, with to , to ed , tost .] 1. Intoxicated. [Colloq.] -2. To ed about; restle ; perplexed. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] I have been so tosticated about since my last that I could not go on in my journal manner. Swift, Journal to Stella, xlviii.