1.  toast(n = noun.food) Array - slices of bread that have been toasted; Array
is a kind of bread, breadstuff, staff of life
has particulars: cinnamon toast, orange toast, melba toast, brussels biscuit, rusk, twice-baked bread, zwieback
Derived form verb toast₁

2.  toast(n = noun.person) Array - a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; "he was the toast of the town"
is a kind of celebrity, famous person

3.  toast(n = noun.person) goner - a person in desperate straits; someone doomed; "I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"; "one mistake and you're toast"
is a kind of desperate

4.  toast(n = noun.food) pledge - a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event; Array
is a kind of drink
Derived form verb toast₂

1.  toast(v = verb.change) crisp, crispen - make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"
is one way to heat, heat up
Derived forms noun toast₁, noun toaster₂, noun toasting₁
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something

2.  toast(v = verb.consumption) drink, pledge, salute, wassail - propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"
is one way to honor, honour, reward
Derived form noun toast₄
Sample sentences: Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody

1.  To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread. [1913 Webster]

2.  To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet. [1913 Webster]

3.  To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady. [1913 Webster]

1.  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. [1913 Webster]
"My sober evening let the tankard bless,
With toast embrowned, and fragrant nutmeg fraught." [1913 Webster]

2.  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. [1913 Webster]
"It now came to the time of Mr. Jones to give a toast . . . who could not refrain from mentioning his dear Sophia." [1913 Webster]

3.  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. [1913 Webster]

toast, n. & v.
--n.
1 bread in slices browned on both sides by radiant heat.
2 a a person (orig. esp. a woman) or thing in whose honour a company is requested to drink. b a call to drink or an instance of drinking in this way.
--v.
1 tr. cook or brown (bread, a teacake, cheese, etc.) by radiant heat.
2 intr. (of bread etc.) become brown in this way.
3 tr. warm (one's feet, oneself, etc.) at a fire etc.
4 tr. drink to the health or in honour of (a person or thing).

Idiom:
have a person on toast colloq. be in a position to deal with a person as one wishes. toasting-fork a long-handled fork for making toast before a fire. toast rack a rack for holding slices of toast at table.

Etymology:
ME (orig. as verb) f. OF toster roast, ult. f. L torrere tost- parch: sense 2 of the noun reflects the notion that a woman's name flavours the drink as spiced toast would

VB  celebrate keep, signalize, do honor to, commemorate, solemnize, hallow, mark with a red letter, pledge, drink to, toast, hob and nob, inaugurate, install, chair, rejoice, kill the fatted calf, hold jubilee, roast an ox.

VB  heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment, make hot, sun oneself, sunbathe, go up in flames, burn to the ground (flame), fire, set fire to, set on fire, kindle, enkindle, light, ignite, strike a light, apply the match to, apply the torch to, rekindle, relume, fan the flame, add fuel to the flame, poke the fire, stir the fire, blow the fire, make a bonfire of, melt, thaw, fuse, liquefy, burn, inflame, roast, toast, fry, grill, singe, parch, bake, torrefy, scorch, brand, cauterize, sear, burn in, corrode, char, calcine, incinerate, smelt, scorify, reduce to ashes, burn to a cinder, commit to the flames, consign to the flames, boil, digest, stew, cook, seethe, scald, parboil, simmer, do to rags, take fire, catch fire, blaze.

cinnamon toast, french toast, melba toast, orange toast, toast mistress