toss, tosse

[To , v.] 1. A throwing upward, or with a jerk; the act of to ing; the state of being to ed or thrown. "A ship's cook, who was a lame man, died at sea, and they gave him the sailor's to overboard."-London Daily Telegraph. 2. A throwing up or jerking of the head; a particular manner of raising the head with a jerk. "There is hardly a polite sentence, in the following dialogues, which doth not absolutely require some suitable to of the head, with certain offices a igned to each hand."- Swift : Introd. Polite Conversation. *3. A state of anxiety. "The last two tot up the bill." -Thackeray : Roundabout Papers, xix.