0 present participle of toast
1 to make bread or other food warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by putting it near a high heat:
2 to hold up your glass and then drink as an expression of good wishes or respect:
In the final scene, drunken wedding guests are toasting the health of the bridal couple when the police make their blustering, inarticulate entrance.
Despite the variety of customers (more could have been said about travellers and migrants), social cohesion was encouraged by singing and toasting and other rituals of fellowship.
Let us react for a little while to the toasting.
One of them did collapse after three or four toastings and the other did not collapse.
I think that the words we have spoken today will act as a very considerable encouragement rather than the toasting exercise.
He takes his coat off and sits in front of the wireless, toasting his feet in front of the electric fire.
I do not take any part in that toasting.
He devised the mix for the correct stickiness and bite, invented the toasting machinery, obtained some second-hand sweet wrapping machinery and fulfilled a number of orders.
