Meanings
tost1
- obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of toss.
How then ſhould I without another wit : thinck euer to endure ſo tædious toyle, ſins that this one is toſt with troublous fit,
16th century, Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, SONNET. XXXIII.1 more example
A wanderer, here by fortune tost, / My way, my friends, my courser lost, / I ne'er before, believe me, fair, / Have ever drawn your mountain air, / Till on this lake's romantic strand, / I found a fay in fairy land.
1810, Walter Scott, “Canto I. The Chase.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXII, page 28
tost2
plural tosts
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of toast.
Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.
c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v], page 52, column 1
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