TOAST
\tˈə͡ʊst], \tˈəʊst], \t_ˈəʊ_s_t]\
Definitions of TOAST
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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slices of bread that have been toasted
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a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention; "he was the toast of the town"
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make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"
By Princeton University
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To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
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To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
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To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
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A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; - so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
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Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as The land we live in, The day we celebrate, etc.
By Oddity Software
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To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
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To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
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To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
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A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; - so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
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Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as The land we live in, The day we celebrate, etc.
By Noah Webster.
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Sliced bread browned by the heat of the fire; an after-dinner speech; one who is named when a health is drunk.
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To brown or heat at the fire; as, to toast bread; to show honor to in drinking; to name when a health is drunk.
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Toaster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To dry and scorch at the fire.
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Bread toasted: a slice of such dipped in liquor.
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To drink toasts.
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The person or thing named whose health is to be drunk.
By Daniel Lyons
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Bread toasted; a health drunk; person whose health is drunk.
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To parch or scorch at the fire; to drink to the health of.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To drink to the health of.
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The act of drinking to same one's health or to some sentiment; also, the person or the sentiment involved.
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To brown, or become brown, over a fire.
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Toasted bread.
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. Bread dried and scorched by the fire, sometimes put into milk or melted butter, and formerly into liquor;-a lady in honour of whom persons are invited to drink;-hence, the name of any person in honour of whom health is drunk ;-hence also, any thing commemorated in a similar way ; a sentiment.
