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noun

Toast n.

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."

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."

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.

verb

Toast v. t. (past & past part. toasted; pres. part. toasting)

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.

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"Toast" Quotes from Famous Books

... Shrimp Toast.—Trim and fry three slices of bread in butter. Take two tablespoonfuls of shelled shrimps, put them into a saucepan with a dessertspoonful of milk, a lump of butter the size of a pigeon's egg, half a teaspoonful of anchovy sauce, and a little cayenne pepper. Shake ...

— The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 • Various

... day was supposed to be eight in the morning. The children, with many little chuckling pauses, while they considered what to do next, twitched the unlucky table cloth straight, put the tea-set on the table, and gave the family a wooden beefsteak for breakfast, and a large plateful of wooden buttered toast, which came from a box full of such indigestible dainties. Then they fished Mr. Charles Augustus Montague out of the corner, and set him upright in a chair at the head of the table, with his newspaper fastened in his hands, by having a couple of large pins stuck through it and them. The points ...

— Funny Little Socks - Being the Fourth Book • Sarah. L. Barrow

... but my love and my master's differ strangely.—Don Ferdinand is much too gallant to eat, drink, or sleep:—now my love gives me an appetite—then I am fond of dreaming of my mistress, and I love dearly to toast her.—This cannot be done without good sleep and good liquor: hence my partiality to a feather- bed and a bottle. What a pity, now, that I have not further time, for reflections! but my master expects thee, honest ...

— The Duenna • Richard Brinsley Sheridan

... asked finally, with a desperate effort at calm. And while I told her she stood looking out of the window with a look I could not fathom on her face. It was a relief when Mrs. Watson tapped at the door and brought me some tea and toast. The cook was in bed, completely demoralized, she reported, and Liddy, brave with the daylight, was looking for footprints around the house. Mrs. Watson herself was a wreck; she was blue-white around the lips, and she ...

— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart

... she might see through his subterfuge in taking her there, and even now refuse the food he offered. But if in that fleeting instant she felt doubt, it had died as it was born. She drank her coffee slowly and ate her eggs and toast as deliberately, but her characteristic air of intense preoccupation had departed. She looked at her companion as if she really saw him. Also, she apparently felt the stirring of some sense of obligation and need of response ...

— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

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