Definition of "tost" [tost]

• Simple past tense and past participle of toss. (verb)

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• "Judge, then, of the delight with which he turned over the pages of a new book, given him this birthday by the kind Mr. Telford, in whose carriage he had first seen those blue hills -- a book in which all his mountain ideals, and more, were caught and kept enshrined -- visions still, and of mightier peaks and ampler valleys, romantically "tost" and sublimely"
• "And in _The Merry Devill of Edmonton_, 1631, there is a comical story of how Smug _the miller_ was _singing a catch_ with the _merry Parson_ in an alehouse, and how they 'tost' the words "_I'll ty my mare in thy ground_,"'so long to and fro,' that Smug forgot he was singing a catch, and began to quarrel with the Parson, 'thinking verily, he had meant (as he said in his song) to _ty his mare in his ground_.'"
• "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"