Top(n.) A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
Top(n.) A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
Top(n.) The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
Top(n.) The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
Top(n.) The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
Top(n.) The chief person; the most prominent one.
Top(n.) The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
Top(n.) The head, or upper part, of a plant.
Top(n.) A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
Top(n.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
Top(n.) Eve; verge; point.
Top(n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
Top(n.) Top-boots.
Top(v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
Top(v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions.
Top(v. i.) To excel; to rise above others.
Top(v. t.) To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
Top(v. t.) To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
Top(v. t.) To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
Top(v. t.) To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
Top(v. t.) To perform eminently, or better than before.
Top(v. t.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.
Topful(a.) Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.
Topped(imp. & p. p.) of Top
Topping(a.) Rising above; surpassing.
Topping(a.) Hence, assuming superiority; proud.
Topping(a.) Fine; gallant.
Topping(n.) The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.
Topping(n.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
Topping(n.) That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
Topping(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Top
Toppingly(a.) Same as Topping, a., 3.
Toppingly(adv.) In a topping or proud manner.
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