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To cut into shreads or pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOSS n. 11 definitions

, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tossed (; (less properly Tost ); p. pr. & vb. n. Tossing.] Etym: [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]

Ohe who tosser. J. Fletcher.

In a tossy manner. [R.]

TOSSING n. 3 definitions

A process which consists in washing ores by violent agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter or earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce.

A toper; one habitually given to strong drink; a drunkard. Shak.

Tossing the head, as in scorn or pride; hence, proud; contemptuous; scornful; affectedly indifferent; as, a tossy commonplace. [R.] C. Kingsley.

imp. & p. p. of Toss.

Quick; rapid. Pui tosto ( Etym: [It.] (Mus.), faster; more rapid.

To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.

TOT n. 3 definitions

Anything small; -- frequently applied as a term of endearment to a little child.

TOTAL a. 2 definitions

Whole; not divided; entire; full; complete; absolute; as, a total departure from the evidence; a total loss. " Total darkness." "To undergo myself the total crime." Milton. Total abstinence. See Abstinence, n., 1. -- Total depravity. (Theol.) See Original sin, under Original.

Same as Totalizator.

TOTALITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being total; as, the totality of an eclipse.

TOTALIZATION n.

Act of totalizing, or state of being totalized.

ber and nature of bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Called also totalizer.

To make total, or complete;to reduce to completeness. Coleridge.