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A division of Pulmonata in which the eyes are situated at the tips of the tentacles. It includes the common land snails and slugs. See Illust. under Snail.

Of or pertaining to Stylommatophora.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, tautophony; repeating the same sound.

Repetition of the same sound.

A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death. Bryant.

Very excellent; most excellent; perfect. [Colloq.] "Four tiptop voices." Gray. "Sung in a tiptop manner." Goldsmith.

A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).

To take the stopple or stopper from; as, to unstop a bottle or a cask.

An imaginary island, represented by Sir Thomas More, in a work called Utopia, as enjoying the greatest perfection in politics, laws, and the like. See Utopia, in the Dictionary of Noted Names in Fiction.

Of or pertaining to Utopia; resembling Utopia; hence, ideal; chimerical; fanciful; founded upon, or involving, imaginary perfections; as, Utopian projects; Utopian happiness.

The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.

An Utopian; an optimist.

Utopian; ideal. [Obs.] "Utopical perfection." Bp. Hall.

A Utopian.

Fiorin.

A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.

days" Shak. "Wit that men have now a days." Chaucer. "Set them a work." Robynson (More's Utopia)

A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more."

To stand apart from; top leave off; to desist. [Obs.] Raleigh.

Authoritative; peremptory. [R.] The peddler stopped, and tapped her on the head, With absolute forefinger, brown and ringed. Mrs. Browning.