ppl. a. Also tost. [f. TOSS v. + -ED1.] Thrown about, hurled this way and that; disordered; disturbed, troubled: see the vb.

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1621.  Bp. Hall, Heaven upon Earth, § 4. The galled soule … after many tossed and turned sides, complaines of remedilesse and vnabated torment.

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1659.  R. Cromwell, in Clarke Papers (Camden), IV. 297. Oh,… that poore tossed Ingland might at laste finde a quiet harbour!

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1780.  A. Young, Tour Irel., I. 265. Wild tossed-about ground.

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1807.  Crabbe, Village, I. 116. On the tost vessel bend their eager eye.

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1825.  Scott, Talism., vi. His tossed couch and impatient gestures showed … the energy and the reckless impatience of a disposition, whose natural sphere was [etc.].

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1844.  H. G. Robinson, Odes of Horace, I. xxxii. His toss’d bark made fast to the watery shore.

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