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• n  cooking to a brown crispiness over a fire or on a grill
  proper toasting should brown both sides of a piece of bread
• v  make brown and crisp by heating
• v  propose a toast to

• Some, like Richard Nixon toasting Zhou Enlai, you probably know.
• I began my career as a country squire with nothing but a high heart, a flask of citronella, and a fork for toasting marshmallows in case supplies ran low.
• Among the crimes punishable by solitary confinement: not waking up when they bang on the bars, not standing up before an officer, brewing coffee or toasting bread, not going to .

• browning
• crispen
• toast
• crisp
• drink
• pledge
• salute
• wassail

News & Articles

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• Sightings . . .
  Mayor Bloomberg talking to playwright Christopher Durang after “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” . . . Gabrielle Union, Lenny Kravitz and Alonzo Mourning toasting with Beau...
  June 24, 2013 - New York Post
• The Sloshed Guide to Saying Cheers
  As with all matters of drink, do as Papa Hemingway would do. We are a pretty loose culture when it comes to social etiquette and rules, but formality still finds places to hide itself. Toasting, or raising a glass of liquor to your companions and saying cheers, has a long history — so long that we can't agree on the actual origins — yet it remains a standard and nearly universal way to begin a ...
  June 20, 2013 - New York Magazine
• Video: Obama toasts his German hosts
  Toasting his German hosts in Berlin, President Obama said, "We are proud to join with millions of men and women throughout the world who hold the cause of freedom sacred."
  June 19, 2013 - CBS News