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."
3.To cause to rise and fall; as, a ship tossed on the waves in a storm. "We being exceedingly tossed with a tempest."
4.To agitate; to make restless. "Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent."
5.Hence, to try; to harass. "Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men."
6.To keep in play; to tumble over; as, to spend four years in tossing the rules of grammar. (Obs.)
To toss off, (b)to accomplish easily or quickly.
(c)to say in an offhand manner; as, to toss off a comment.
(d)to masturbate; British slang.