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Webster 1913 Edition


Retoss

Re-toss′

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Verb.
T.
To toss back or again.

Webster 1828 Edition


Retoss

RETOSS'

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Verb.
T.
[re and toss.] To toss back.

Definition 2024


retoss

retoss

English

Verb

retoss (third-person singular simple present retosses, present participle retossing, simple past and past participle retossed)

  1. To toss again; to throw back.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, I.42:
      Compare unto him the vulgar troupes of our men, stupide, base, servile, wavering, and continually floting on the tempestuous ocean of divers passions which tosse and retosse the same, wholy depending of others.