"Toast" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
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.
To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink
to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
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.
To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast
bread.
To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
still other winters average their rain months into a long, cold season of relentless sog and little color. At such times, looking out through the spattered glass, I feel, deep in some spongy, unignorable organ, that we will have floods, and damage, and losses; we will have gray till the cows come home, and there will be no more cows--they'll all just rot, drown, or simply wash away. We will have rain until the very hills dissolve. And when the dirty cotton swaddling of fog finally falls away, we will all be desperate for vital signs.
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A bumper in honor of a toast or health.
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