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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOSSING

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

TOSSING

n.The act of throwing upward; a rising and falling suddenly; a rolling and tumbling. Dire was the tossing, deep the groans.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

TOSSING

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 earhy particles; -- called also tozing, and treloobing, in Cornwall. Pryce.(b ) A process for refining tin by dropping it through the air while melted.