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- English Word Top-dressed Definition of Top-dress
- English Word Top-dressing Definition of Top-dress
- English Word Top-dressing Definition The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
- English Word Top-hamper Definition The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship.
- English Word Top-heavy Definition Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part.
- English Word Top-light Definition A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
- English Word Top-proud Definition Proud to the highest degree.
- English Word Top-rope Definition A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
- English Word Top-shaped Definition Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.
- English Word Top-shell Definition Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochidae.
- English Word Top-tackle Definition A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
- English Word Top-timbers Definition The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks.
- English Word Top-tool Definition A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.
- English Word Toparch Definition The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy.
- English Word Toparchies Definition of Toparchy
- English Word Toparchy Definition A small state, consisting of a few cities or towns; a petty country governed by a toparch; as, Judea was formerly divided into ten toparchies.
- English Word Topau Definition The rhinocerous bird (a).
- English Word Topaz Definition A mineral occurring in rhombic prisms, generally yellowish and pellucid, also colorless, and of greenesh, bluish, or brownish shades. It sometimes occurs massive and opaque. It is a fluosilicate of alumina, and is used as a gem.
- English Word Topaz Definition Either one of two species of large, brilliantly colored humming birds of the Topaza, of South America and the West Indies.
- English Word Topazolite Definition A topaz-yellow variety of garnet.
- English Word Topcoat Definition An outer coat; an overcoat.
- English Word Tope Definition A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
- English Word Tope Definition A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
- English Word Tope Definition A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / Galeus, galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; -- called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
- English Word Tope Definition The wren.
- English Word Tope Definition To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess.
- English Word Toped Definition of Tope
- English Word Toper Definition One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.
- English Word Topet Definition The European crested titmouse.
- English Word Topful Definition Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.