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One that tops, in any sense of the verb; specif.:

A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.

Hence, assuming superiority; proud. The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world. South.

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 crystalline ketone, CH3COC6H5, which may be obtained by the dry distillation of a mixture of the calcium salts of acetic and benzoic acids. It is used as a hypnotic under the name of hypnone.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet.

On or at the top. Milton.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

ting to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.