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To throw, generally with a definite aim or purpose; to cast; to hurl; to toss; as, to pitch quoits; to pitch hay; to pitch a ball.

ce of cloth; a shred; a tatter; a fragment. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. Not having otherwise any rag of legality to cover the shame of their cruelty. Fuller.

o rock; as, there is a great difference in ships about rolling; in a general semse, to be tossed about. Twice ten tempestuous nights I rolled. Pope.

Tossed in waves; boisterous; high; -- said of a sea or other piece of water. More unequal than the roughest sea. T. Burnet.

To fry lightly and quickly, as meat, by turning ot tossing it over frequently in a hot pan greased with a little fat.

Full of shoals, or shallow places. The tossing vessel sailed on shoaly ground. Dryden.

To send or toss to and fro; to bandy; as, to shuttlecock words. Thackeray.

Weak; helpless; frail. [Obs.] After long storms . . . With which my silly bark was tossed sore. Spenser. The silly buckets on the deck. Coleridge.

sing will. I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles. Addison. As soon as, or So soon as, imediately at or after another event. "As soon as he came nigh unto the camp . . . he saw the calf, and the dancing." Ex. xxxii. 19. See So…

To throw in a negligent or careless manner; to toss. [Obs.] Swift.

To kick or toss up the heels. The miller spurned at a stone. Chaucer. The drunken chairman in the kennel spurns. Gay.

ally by a high wind. He that doubteth is like the surge of the sea driven by the wind and tossed. James i. 6 (Rev. Ver.) He flies aloft, and, with impetuous roar, Pursues the foaming surges to the shore. Dryden.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

hurl with a certain whirling motion of the arm, to throw a ball; -- distinguished from to toss, or to bowl.

imp. & p. p. of Toss.

ull of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time of troublous need." Byron. A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.

To roll over, or to and fro; to throw one's self about; as, a person on pain tumbles and tosses.

d to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean. Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent. Milton.

commotion; to disquiet; to worry. [Obs.] It is her fatal misfortune . . . to be miserably tossed and turmoiled with these storms of affliction. Spenser.

A kind of rolling walk. One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow. Dryden.