[f. TOSS v. + -ING2.] That tosses: see the vb.
1575. Gamm. Gurton, II. iv. My goodly tossing sporyars neele, chaue lost ich wot not where.
1742. Young, Nt. Th., I. 267. How I dreamt … Of stable pleasures on the tossing wave!
1816. J. Wilson, City of Plague, II. iv. 106. Beside the couch of tossing agony.
1896. ‘H. S. Merriman,’ Flotsam, iv. A fine boy with tossing fair curls.
Hence Tossingly adv.
1620. Thomas, Lat. Dict., Volutatim … rollingly, tumblingly, tossingly.
1923. Rabbi S. Hirshberg, in Wisconsin Jewish Chron., 7 Sept. 1/2. The current of existence rushes agitatedly along and carries him tossingly with it.
