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In a topping or proud manner.

To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down. Though castles topple on their warders' heads. Shak.

in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants. 'T is said that her top-and-bottoms were gilt. Hood.

igged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship. Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.

The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman. Simmonds.

The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.

In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.

A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet. His velvet toque stuck as airily as ever upon the side of his head. Motley.

See Toque, 1.

A tower; a turret. [R.] Ray.

To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A law; a precept.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

A mineral occurring in emerald-green tabular crystals having a micaceous structure. It is a hydrous phosphate of uranium and copper. Called also copper uranite, and chalcolite.

Same as Torque, 1.

large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame. They light the nuptial torch. Milton. Torch thistle. (Bot.) See under Thistle.

A race by men carrying torches, as in ancient Greece.

One whose office it is to carry a torch.