toppice, tappice

i. or t. [TAPISH.] To over, to hide, to lie hid. IMG:content-1240.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1241.png:[blocks in formation] forward; ready to fall. "And toppling trees that twine their roots with stone In perpendicular places." Byron Heaven and Earth, 1. 3. *top-right ( gh silent), a. [Eng. top , and right .] Erect, topmost. "His top right crest from crown downe battred falles." Phaer Virgil's Æneid , ix. *top-side-tür-vý, adv . [See def.] The same as TOPSYTURVY (q. v.). (Sterne: Tristram Shandy, iri. 169.) *top-si-turn, v . t . [TOPSYTURVY.] To upset, to overthrow. "By his travail to psi turn eth them." Sylvester: The Vocation, 744. tops-man, s. [Eng. top, and man.] 1. A topman (q. v.). 2. A chief or head cattle-drover. *top-sy-tür-vi-lý, adv . [Eng. topsyturvy ; -ly.] In an inverted or reversed state; upside down. "Has done some clever things in his time, can sing a good song, and might well be employed for Faust viewed topsyturvily." -London Daily Telegraph. top-sy-tür-vě, *top-sie-tur-vie, adv . [A word variously explained. Trench considers it a corrup tion of topside the other way , as in Search : Light of Nature, vol. ii., pt. ii., ch. xxiii., "His words are to be turned topside t'other way to understand them." Fitzedward Hall prefers top set turned and Skeat top side turfy, i. e., the top side set on the turf or ground. Others take it as top side turf - way , which has the same meaning.] In an inverted position; upside down; with the bottom upward and top or head downward. "It is truth topsyturvy , entirely logical and absurd." Thackeray: English Humorists , lect. i. *top-sy-tür-vỹ, v. t . & i. [TOPSYTURVY, adv .] A. Transitive : To turn upside down; to upset, to bewilder. "My poor mind is all topsyturvied. " - Richardson: Pamela, ii. 40. B. In trans.: To turn upside down; to invert one's position. "In the topsyturveying course of time." -Southey: Doc tor , ch. xxxix. *top-sy-tür-vy-dom, subst . [English topsy turvy; -dom .] A state of things in which everything is turned upside down or reversed. "The view of cynical topsyturvydom which has been so long worked with succe at length shows signs of exhaustion."-Athenœum, March 21, 1885, p. 384. *top-sy-tur-vý-fi-ca-tion, subst . [Eng. topsy turvyfy; -cation.] An upsetting; a turning topsyturvy. "A regular topsyturryfication of morality." -Thackeray: Paris Sketch - book: Mad. Sand. *top-sy-tür-vy-fy, *top-sy-tür-vi-fỹ, v . t . [Eng. topsyturry ; fy.] To turn upside down. Vivisection is topsyturryfied in a manner far from pleasing to humanity." London Daily Telegraph.