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Proud in the highest degree. "This top - proud fellow."-Shakesp.: Henry VIII., 1. 1. top-rail, s. Carp .: The uppermost rail of a piece of framing or wainscoting. top-rim, s . Naut .: A thin piece of board bent round a ve el's top, giving it a finish, and covering in the ends of the cro -trees and trestle-trees, in order to prevent the top-sail from being chafed. top-rope, s. Naut.: A rope to sway up a topmast. top-sail, s. Naut.: The second sail above the deck on any mast (main, fore, or mizzen). "And when he was to leeward, he kept about to the shoreward, and left vs, and then we put out our top - sailes and gaue them chace."-Hackluyt: Voyages, ii. 40. Top- sail - schooner : top-sawyer, s. II. Figuratively : 1. One who holds a higher position than another; a chief over others. "Wasn't he always top - sawyer among you all!" - Dickens: Oliver Twist, ch. xliii. 2. A first-rate man in any line; an eminent man; an aristocrat. top-shaped, a. IMG:content-1232.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To predominate. "The thoughts of the mind are uninterruptedly employed by the determination of the will, influenced by topping uneasine while it lasts." -Locke: Human Under stand ., bk. ii., ch. xxi. 4. To be of a certain height; to measure in height. B. Transitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To cover on the top; to cap. "Her pile, far off appearing like a mount Of alabaster, top't with golden spires." 2. To pa over the top of. Milton: P. L. , iv. 548. "Many a green dog would endeavor to take a meuse instead of topping the brambles, thereby po ibly splitting a claw." - Field , March 19, 1887. 3. To rise above. IMG:content-1233.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1234.jpg:[graphic] *7. To perform eminently. *8. To copulate with; to tup, to cover. "Ca io did top her."- Shakesp .: Othello , v. 2. II. Naut .: To raise one end, as of a yard or boom, so that one end becomes higher than the other. "All Sept. 4, 1886. topped their booms for home."-Field, top or uppermost part of; as, to top off a stack of (1) To top off : To complete by putting over the hay; hence, to finish, to complete. *(2) To top over tail, *To toppe ouer tayle : To turn head over heels. "To tumble ouer and ouer, to toppe ouer tayle." Ascham: Toxophilus , p. 47. *(3) To top up with : To finish with; to wind up Botany: Inversely conical, with a contraction with. Zool .: A popular name for any shell of the genus Turbinella, from the fact that the type-species, Turbinella pyrum , is by no means unlike a peg-top. top-side, s. IMG:content-1235.png:[blocks in formation] "Four engage to go half-price to the play at night and top up with oysters." -Dickens : Bleak House , ch. xi. toparchos , from topos =a place, and archō =to rule.] *top'-arch, s . [Lat. toparch a , from Gr. to parches , The principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. "They are not to be conceived potent monarchs, but top Errors. archs , or kings of narrow territories."-Browne: Vulgar