| 释义 |
reˈtoss, v.|riː-|
[re- 5 a.]
trans. To toss back or again (esp. in phr. tossed and retossed).
1549Chaloner Erasm. on Folly K iv b, What Invectives than are tossed and retossed betwixe theim. 1575Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 203 She had..turned over and retossed every carde in this sequence. 1611Florio, Riuoltolato, tossed, retossed. 1700Dryden Cymon & Iph. 370 The wand'ring Vessel drove before the Wind: Toss'd and retoss'd, aloft, and then alow. 1745Warton Ecloges v, All around the roar of war was up, From rock to rock retost, from wood to wood. |