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

us 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.]

Being, or having its origin, within the external surface of the body; -- especially applied to feelings, such as hunger, produced by internal disturbances. Opposed to epiperipheral.

The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.

An animal having eight feet, as a spider.

Having eight petals or flower leaves.

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

To excavate in the form of stopes.

Stepped; gone; advanced. [Obs.] A poor widow, somedeal stope in age. Chaucer.

A toper; a guzzler. See Boozer.

One who boozes; a toper; a guzzler of alcoholic liquors; a bouser.

A toper; a boozer.

n which centaurs take part, -- a common theme for relief sculpture, as in the Parthenon metopes.

who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.

surface, as the sensation produced by touching an object with the finger; -- opposed to entoperipheral. H. Spenser.

A South European plant of the genus Leontice (L. leontopetalum), the tuberous roots of which contain so much alkali that they are sometimes used as a substitute for soap.

A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.

r. Prior. -- Penny dog (Zoöl.), a kind of shark found on the South coast of Britain: the tope. -- Penny father, a penurious person; a niggard. [Obs.] Robinson (More's Utopia). -- Penny grass (Bot.), pennyroyal. [R.] -- Penny post, a post carrying a letter for a penny; also, a mail carrier. -- Penny wise, wise or pr…