Thesaurus: toast

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1. v. t. To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
2. v. t. To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
3. v. t. To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
4. v. 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.
5. v. 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.
6. v. 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.
7. n. slices of bread that have been toasted
8. n. a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention
9. n. a person in desperate straits; someone doomed
10. n. a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event
11. v. make brown and crisp by heating
12. v. propose a toast to