Lexic.us

Definition of Toast

1. Verb. Make brown and crisp by heating. "Crisp potatoes"

2. Noun. Slices of bread that have been toasted.

3. Verb. Propose a toast to. "Let's drink to the New Year"

4. Noun. A celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention. "He was the toast of the town"

5. Noun. A person in desperate straits; someone doomed. "One mistake and you're toast"

6. Noun. A drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event.

Definition of Toast

1. v. t. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.

2. n. 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.

Definition of Toast

1. Noun. Toasted bread. ¹

2. Noun. A proposed salutation (e.g. to say "cheers") while drinking alcohol. ¹

3. Noun. A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem. ¹

4. Noun. (slang) Something that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury. ¹

5. Noun. (slang Jamaica) Extemporaneous narrative poem or rap. ¹

6. Noun. (computing) A software engineering term for a transient, pop-up informational window ¹

7. Verb. To lightly cook by browning via direct exposure to a fire or other heat source. ¹

8. Verb. To grill, lightly cook by browning specifically under a grill or in a toaster ¹

9. Verb. To engage in a salutation and/or accompanying raising of glasses while drinking alcohol in honor of someone or something. ¹

10. Verb. (slang Jamaica) To perform extemporaneous narrative poem or rap. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toast

1. to brown by exposure to heat [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Toast

1. 1. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. 2. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. 3. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. Origin: OF. Toster to roast, toast, fr. L. Torrere, tostum, to parch, roast. See Torrid. 1. 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. "My sober evening let the tankard bless, With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught." (T. Warton) 2. 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. "It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . Who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia." (Fielding) 3. 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. Toast rack, a small rack or stand for a table, having partitions for holding slices of dry toast. Origin: OF. Toste, or tostee, toasted bread. See Toast. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toast

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Literary usage of Toast

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Boston Cooking-school Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer (1896)
"Cold water. fi slices dry toast. Add cold water gradually to flour to make a ... Dip slices of toast separately in sauce; when soft, remove to serving dish. ..."

2. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"FILL me with the rosy wine, Call a toast ... toast divine ; Give the Poet's darling flame, Lovely Jessy be the name ; Then thou mayest freely boast, ..."

3. Works of Fisher Ames by Fisher Ames (1854)
"At a meeting of a county in Virginia, one Callender, the rival of Venable, the present member, gave at dinner, in a large company, this toast: — " A speedy ..."

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