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An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer.

A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.

A grove or clumb of trees; as, a toddy tope. [India] Whitworth.

s or seal. In Alaska it is often partially underground and covered with timber and turf. Topeks are also used by Indians of the lower Yukon region.

One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot.

The European crested titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A rope used in towing vessels.

A propeller screw placed in front of the supporting planes of an aëroplane instead of behind them, so that it exerts a pull instead of a push. Hence, Tractor monoplane, Tractor biplane, etc.

Same as Guide rope, above.

An apparatus for the detection of trichinæ in the flesh of animals, as of swine.

A kind of loose dress for women. [Obs.] Goldsmith.

A soldier in a body of cavalry; a cavalryman; also, the horse of a cavalryman.

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

Any one of a series of artificial ethereal salts derived from the alkaloidal base tropine.

A small coin, and money of account, in England, equivalent to two pennies, -- minted to a fixed annual amount, for almsgiving by the sovereign on Maundy Thursday.

Of the value of twopence.

Not hoped or expected. "With unhoped success." Dryden. Blessings of friends, which to my door Unasked, unhoped, have come. J. N. Newman.

Unhoped; unexpected.

Producing no effect; inoperative. [Obs.] South.

Destitute of an operculum, or cover.