Middle English Dictionary Entry
tōsten v.
Entry Info
| Forms | tōsten v. Also tost(e; p.ppl. i)tosted, tost. |
| Etymology | OF toster; ult. from L tost-, p.ppl. stem of torrēre. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To heat (a substance) thoroughly with a resulting transformation, esp. a change in color; of the sun: darken (a man); (b) to crisp and darken (bread, etc.) by exposure to the heat of a fire, toast; ppl. tosted, made crisp and dark by the heat of a fire.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)754/2 : Ethiopia, bloo mennes londe, had first þat name of colour of men, for þe sonne is nyȝe and rosteþ and tosteþ [L torret] ham.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1294/23 : Sandaracha..is of reed colour and..Cerusa ytosted [L torreatur] in an ouene torne into sandaricha, Þe colour þerof is rede, and if it is euene ytosted and ymedled wiþ rubrica, þanne it torneþ into sandix.
b
- a1400 Lanfranc (Ashm 1396)287/9 : Make him ete a litil of breed tostid [L panem tostum] vpon coolis & wet in wijn.
- c1400 Sln.468 Cook.Recipes (Sln 468)83.3/2 : Tak wyn & peres & boyle hem togedere, & tak tosted bred & grynde hem alle togedere.
- c1400 Sln.468 Cook.Recipes (Sln 468)85.13/4 : Þe sauce schal be mad..of gynger & of galyngale &..coloured..with brende crustes þat arn tosted.
- a1425(a1399) Form Cury (Add 5016)119.96/3 : Take wyne and hony..and seeþ it long..Tost brede and lay the sewe þerto.
- c1425(c1400) Ld.Troy (LdMisc 595)7052 : Thei were serued with many a messe, With many noble diuers rost, With mete bakyn, sothen, and tost.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)497 : Tooste [Win: toostyn] brede or oþer lyke: Torreo.
- a1450 Hrl.Cook.Bk.(1) (Hrl 279)p.11 : Soupes dorye..take Paynemayn an kytte it an toste it an wete it in wyne.
- c1450 Med.Bk.(2) (Add 33996)153 : Take wheten bred & tost hyt tyl hyt be browne, & lete myce hyt smalle on a gratur.
- a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sln 1986)p.53 : Tost shyves of gode manchete, Enbene hom with wyne on both syde; þenne Sawce hom with sugur inoȝhe.
- ?a1475 Noble Bk.Cook.(Hlk 674)107 : Toost whit bred and lay it in a disshe and enbane it with wyn.
- a1500 Add.37075 Gloss (Add 37075)22/132a : Torreo: toste.