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Tossing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2. Dire was the tossing deep the groans.

3. A toper; one habitually given to strong drink.

Tossing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Throwing upward with a jerk; raising suddenly; as the head.

Tossing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling.

2. 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.

3. A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.

Tossing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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