抖[摇]动的行为或过程

Toss \Toss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tossed} ; (less properly
{Tost} ); p. pr. & vb. n. {Tossing}.] [ W. tosiaw, tosio, to
jerk, toss, snatch, tosa quick jerk, a toss, a snatch. ]
1. To throw with the hand; especially, to throw with the palm
of the hand upward, or to throw upward; as, to toss a
ball.

2. To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as,
to toss the head.

He tossed his arm aloft, and proudly told me,
He would not stay. --Addison.

3. To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves
in a storm.

We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest. --Act
xxvii. 18.

4. To agitate; to make restless.

Calm region once,
And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
--Milton.

5. Hence, to try; to harass.

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.
--Herbert.

6. To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years
in tossing the rules of grammar. [Obs.] --Ascham.

{To toss off},
(a) to drink hastily.
(b) to accomplish easily or quickly.
(c) to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a
comment.
(d) to masturbate; -- British slang.

{To toss the cars}.See under Oar, n.


Tossing \Toss"ing\, n.
1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly;
a rolling and tumbling.

2. (Mining)
(a) A process which consists in washing ores by violent
agitation in water, in order to separate the lighter
or earthy particles; -- called also {tozing}, and
{treloobing}, in Cornwall. --Pryce.
(b) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the
air while melted.