"toast" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\Toast\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Toasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Toasting}.] [OF. toster to roast, toast, fr. L. torrere,
tostum, to parch, roast. See {Torrid}.]
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.

\Toast\, n. [OF. toste, or tost['e]e, toasted bread. See
{Toast}, v.]
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.