Toast

Definition of Toast

v. t.1.To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
[imp. & p. p. Toasted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Toasting.]
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.
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.
- 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.

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