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An antelope (Damaliscus corrigum jimela) having a glossy purplish brown coat. It is related to the blesbok and is native of British East Africa. Also, any of various related varieties of other districts south of the Sahara.

l cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening. [R.] "The topiarian artist." Sir W. Scott. All the pedantries of the topiarian art. C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian. Topiary work, arbors, shrubbery, hedges, or the like, cut and trimmed into fanciful forms, as of animals, building, etc.

of argument; a system or scheme of forms or commonplaces of argument or oratory; as, the Topics of Aristotle. These topics, or loci, were no other than general ideas applicable to a great many different subjects, which the orator was directed to consult. Blair. In this question by [reason] I do not mean a distinct top…

Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.

In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

A morbid displacement of parts, especially such as is congenial; as, ectopia of the heart, or of the bladder.

Out of place; congenitally displaced; as, an ectopic organ.

A deviation from the natural position; -- a term applied in the case of organs or growths which are abnormal in situation.

Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.

An alkaloid found in opium in small quantities, and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

The act of excavating in the form of stopes.

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.

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