See Also: Toast(medicine)
toast(1)(dictionary)
toast(2)(dictionary)
toast(3)(dictionary)
toast(4)(dictionary)
Toast(tourism)
New Year' s Toast Dip(recipes)
Shrimp Toast(recipes)
Croissant Toast(recipes)
toast 2, verb(dictionary)

kyloe (iou) and toast(3) (iou)


kyloe (iou)



kyloe noun. Scot. E19.
[Gaelic gaidhealach Gaelic, Highland.]
(An animal of) the breed of Highland cattle.

toast(3) (iou)



toast verb1. LME.
[Old French toster roast, grill from Proto-Romance from Latin tost- pa. ppl stem of torrere parch. In branch II directly from TOAST noun1.]
I.
verb trans. Burn as the sun does, parch; heat thoroughly. obsolete exc. as passing into sense 2. LME.
Bacon The grass is soon parched with the Sun and toasted.
verb trans. Brown (bread, cheese, etc.) by exposure to an open fire, a grill, or Other source of radiant heat. LME.
toasting-fork a long-handled fork for toasting bread etc. over a fire.
W. McIlvanney She toasted one slice of bread.
b. Warm (one's feet, oneself, etc.) at a fire. M19.
W. Trevor Pulvertaft stood toasting his back at the fire.
verb intrans.
a. Warm oneself thoroughly. E17.
Oxford English Dictionary This cheese toasts well.
b. Of bread, cheese, etc.: become brown by being toasted; admit of being toasted. Cf. earlier TOASTER noun1 3. E20.
II.
verb intrans. Propose or drink a toast (to). Now rare or obsolete. L17.
F. Manning When ere I Toast..I'll begin No Giant's Health.
verb trans. Propose or drink a toast to (a person, orig. esp. a woman, institution, etc.). E18.
toasting glass a glass used for drinking toasts.
L. MacNeice People..toasting the King, Red lozenges of light as each one lifts his glass. C. Simmons I..held up my glass to toast the proposal.