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Definition of Top
| n. | 1. | 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. | | 2. | (Rope Making) 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. | | 1. | 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. | | 2. | The utmost degree; the acme; the summit. | | 3. | 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. | | 4. | The chief person; the most prominent one. | | 5. | The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. | | 6. | The head, or upper part, of a plant. | | 7. | (Naut.) 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. | | 8. | (Wool Manuf.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out. | | 9. | Eve; verge; point. | | 10. | The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface. | | 11. | Top-boots. | | 12. | (Golf) A stroke on the top of the ball. | | v. i. | 1. | To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains. | | 2. | To predominate; as, topping passions. | | 3. | To excel; to rise above others. | | 4. | (Golf) To strike a ball above the center. | | 5. | (Naut.) To rise at one end, as a yard; - usually with up. | | v. t. | 1. | To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; - chiefly used in the past participle. | | 2. | To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass. | | 3. | To rise to the top of; to go over the top of. | | 4. | To take off the or upper part of; to crop. | | 5. | To perform eminently, or better than before. | | 6. | (Naut.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other. | | 7. | (Dyeing) To cover with another dye; as, to top aniline black with methyl violet to prevent greening and crocking. | | 8. | To put a stiffening piece or back on (a saw blade). | | 9. | To arrange, as fruit, with the best on top. | | 10. | To strike the top of, as a wall, with the hind feet, in jumping, so as to gain new impetus; - said of a horse. | | 11. | To improve (domestic animals, esp. sheep) by crossing certain individuals or breeds with other superior. | | 12. | (Naut.) To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other. | | 13. | To cut, break, or otherwise take off the top of (a steel ingot) to remove unsound metal. | | 14. | (Golf) To strike (the ball) above the center; also, to make (as a stroke) by hitting the ball in this way. |
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