Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter T - Page 52
Topgallant (a.) (Naut.) Situated above the topmast and below the royal mast; designatb, or pertaining to, the third spars in order from the deck; as, the topgallant mast, yards, braces, and the like. See Illustration of Ship.
Topgallant (a.) Fig.: Highest; elevated; splendid. "The consciences of topgallant sparks." -- L'Estrange.
Topgallant breeze, A breeze in which the topgallant sails may properly be carried.
Topgallant (n.) (Naut.) A topgallant mast or sail.
Topgallant (n.) Fig.: Anything elevated or splendid. -- Bacon.
Topgallant (n.) A sail set on a yard of a topgallant mast [syn: topgallant, topgallant sail].
Topgallant (n.) A mast fixed to the head of a topmast on a square-rigged vessel [syn: topgallant, topgallant mast].
Toph (n.) (Min.) Kind of sandstone.
Tophaceous (a.) Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.
Top-hamper (n.) (Naut.) The upper rigging, spars, etc., of a ship. [Written also top hamper.]
All the ships of the fleet . . . were so encumbered with tophamper, so overweighted in proportion to their draught of water, that they could bear but little canvas, even with smooth seas and light and favorable winds. -- Motley.
Top-heavy (a.) Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Top-heavy (a.) Unstable by being overloaded at the top.
Tophet (n.) A place lying east
or southeast of
And he defiled Topheth, which is in the valley of the children of Hinnom. -- 2 Kings xxiii. 10.
Note: It seems to have been at first part of the royal garden, but it was afterwards defiled and polluted by the sacrifices of Baal and the fires of Moloch, and resounded with the cries of burning infants. At a later period, its altars and high places were thrown down, and all the filth of the city poured into it, until it became the abhorrence of Jerusalem, and, in symbol, the place where are wailing and gnashing of teeth.
The pleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna called, the type of hell. -- Milton.
Tophet, () = Topheth, from Heb. toph "a drum," because the cries of children here sacrificed by the priests of Moloch were drowned by the noise of such an instrument; or from taph or toph, meaning "to burn," and hence a place of burning, the name of a particular part in the valley of Hinnom. "Fire being the most destructive of all elements, is chosen by the sacred writers to symbolize the agency by which God punishes or destroys the wicked. We are not to assume from prophetical figures that material fire is the precise agent to be used. It was not the agency employed in the destruction of Sennacherib, mentioned in Isa. 30:33...Tophet properly begins where the Vale of Hinnom bends round to the east, having the cliffs of Zion on the north, and the Hill of Evil Counsel on the south. It terminates at Beer 'Ayub, where it joins the Valley of Jehoshaphat. The cliffs on the southern side especially abound in ancient tombs. Here the dead carcasses of beasts and every offal and abomination were cast, and left to be either devoured by that worm that never died or consumed by that fire that was never quenched." Thus Tophet came to represent the place of punishment. (See HINNOM.)
Tophet, () A drum; betraying
Tophin (n.) (Min.) Same as Toph.
Tophi (n. pl. ) of Tophus.
Tophus (n.) (Med.) One of the mineral concretions about the joints, and in other situations, occurring chiefly in gouty persons. They consist usually of urate of sodium; when occurring in the internal organs they are also composed of phosphate of calcium.
Tophus (n.) (Min.) Calcareous tufa.
Topiarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ornamental 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.
Topiary (a.) 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, buildings, etc.
Topiary (n.) A garden having shrubs clipped or trimmed into decorative shapes especially of animals.
Topiary (n.) Making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees.
Topic (n.) One of the various general forms of argument employed in probable as distinguished from demonstrative reasoning, -- denominated by Aristotle to`poi (literally, places), as being the places or sources from which arguments may be derived, or to which they may be referred; also, a prepared form of argument, applicable to a great variety of cases, with a supply of which the ancient rhetoricians and orators provided themselves; a commonplace of argument or oratory.
Topic (n.) pl. A treatise on forms 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 topic, but a transcendent that runs through all topics. -- Jer. Taylor.
Topic (n.) An argument or reason. [Obs.]
Contumacious persons, who are not to be fixed by any principles, whom no topics can work upon. -- Bp. Wilkins.
Topic (n.) The subject of any distinct portion of a discourse, or argument, or literary composition; also, the general or main subject of the whole; a matter treated of; a subject, as of conversation or of thought; a matter; a point; a head.
Topic (n.) (Med.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc. [Obsoles.] -- Wiseman.
Topic (a.) Topical. -- Drayton. Holland.
Topic (n.) The subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love" [syn: subject, topic, theme].
Topic (n.) Some situation or event that is thought about; "he kept drifting off the topic"; "he had been thinking about the subject for several years"; "it is a matter for the police" [syn: topic, subject, issue, matter].
Topical (a.) Of or pertaining to a place; limited; logical application; as, a topical remedy; a topical claim or privilege.
Topical (a.) (Rhet. & logic) Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; according to topics.
Topical (a.) Resembling a topic, or general maxim; hence, not demonstrative, but merely probable, as an argument.
Evidences of fact can be no more than topical and probable. -- Sir M. Hale.
Topical (a.) Pertaining to the surface of a body part; "a drug for topical (or local) application"; "a topical anesthesia."
Topical (a.) Of or relating to or arranged by topics; "a detailed record on both a chronological and a topical basis."
Topical (a.) Of interest at the present time; "a topical reference"; "a topical and timely study of civil liberty."
Topically (adv.) In a topical manner; with application to, or limitation of, a particular place or topic.
Topically (adv.) To a restricted area of the body; "apply this medicine topically" [syn: locally, topically].
Topknot (n.) A crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an orgamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.
A great, stout servant girl, with cheeks as red as her topknot. -- Sir W. Scott.
Topknot (n.) (Zool.) A small Europen flounder ({Rhoumbus punctatus). The name is also applied to allied species.
Topknot (n.) Headdress consisting of a decorative ribbon or bow worn in the hair.
Topknot (n.) Showy crest or knot of hair or feathers.
Topless (a.) 上空的；（婦女）袒胸的；非常高的 Having no top, or no visible top; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled. " The topless Apennines." "Topless fortunes." -- Beau. & Fl.
Topless (a.) Wearing no clothes above the waist, said especially of women.
Topless (a.) Featuring entertainment by women wearing no clothes above the waist; as, a topless go-go joint.
Topless (a.) Having no top; "a topless jar" [ant: {topped}].
Topless (a.) Having the breasts uncovered or featuring such nudity; "topless waitresses"; "a topless cabaret" [syn: {bare- breasted}, {braless}, {topless}].
Topless (a. & adv.) （通常指女子）裸露上身的（地）Used to describe someone, usually a woman, wearing nothing on the upper part of the body, or something connected with this way of dressing.
// Topless dancers/ bars/ sunbathing.
// Many women now go topless on the beach.
Top-light (n.) (Naut.) A lantern or light on the top of a vessel.
Topmem (n. pl. ) of Topman.
Topman (n.) See Topsman, 2.
Topman (n.) (Naut.) A man stationed in the top.
Topmast (n.) (Naut.) The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.
Topmast (n.) The mast next above a lower mast and topmost in a fore-and-aft rig.
Topmost (a.) Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.
The nightngale may claim the topmost bough. -- Cowper.
Topmost (a.) At or nearest to the top; "the uppermost book in the pile"; "on the topmost step" [syn: topmost, uppermost, upmost].
Topographer (n.) One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land.
Dante is the one authorized topographer of the mediaeval hell. -- Milman.
Topographic () Alt. of Topographical.
Topographical () Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.
Topographist (n.) A topographer.
Topography (n.) The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Topology (n.) The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.
Toponomy (n.) The designation of position and direction.
Toppiece (n.) A small wig for the top of the head; a toupee.
Topping (a.) Rising above; surpassing.
Topping (a.) Hence, assuming superiority; proud.
Topping (a.) Fine; gallant.
Topping (n.) The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.
Topping (n.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
Topping (n.) That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
Toppingly (adv.) In a topping or proud manner.
Toppingly (a.) Same as Topping, a., 3.
Toppled (imp. & p. p.) of Topple.
Toppling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Topple.
Topple (v. i.) 倒塌，搖搖欲墜 To fall forward; to pitch or tumble down.
Though castles topple on their warders' heads. -- Shak.
Topple (v. t.) 推翻，顛覆 To throw down; to overturn.
He topple crags from the precipice. -- Longfellow.
Topple (v.) Fall down, as if collapsing; "The tower of the World Trade Center tumbled after the plane hit it" [syn: {tumble}, {topple}].
Topple (v.) Cause to topple or tumble by pushing [syn: {topple}, {tumble}, {tip}].
Top-proud (a.) Proud to the highest degree. [R.] "This top-proud fellow." -- Shak.
Top-rope (n.) A rope used for hoisting and lowering a topmast, and for other purposes.
Topsail (n.) In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermost sail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furled in working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail set upon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.
Tops-and-bottoms (n. pl.) Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants.
Top-shaped (a.) Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.
Top-shell (n.) Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochidae.
Topsmen (n. pl. ) of Topsman.
Topsman (n.) The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.
Topsman (n.) The uppermost sawyer in a saw pit; a topman.
Topsoil (n.) The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
Topsoiling (n.) The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.
Topstone (n.) A stone that is placed on the top, or which forms the top.
Topsy-turvy (adv.) In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.
Top-tackle (n.) A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.
Top-timbers (n.) The highest timbers on the side of a vessel, being those above the futtocks.
Top-tool (n.) A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from a tool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.
Toque (n.) A kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.
Toque (n.) A variety of the bonnet monkey.
Toquet (n.) See Toque, 1.
Tor (n.) A tower; a turret. [R.] -- Ray.
Tor (n.) High-pointed hill; a rocky pinnacle. [Prov. Eng.]
A rolling range of dreary moors, unbroken by tor or tree. -- C. Kingsley. Torace
Tor (n.) A prominent rock or pile of rocks on a hill.
Tor (n.) A high rocky hill.
Torace (v. t.) Alt. of Torase.
Torase (v. t.) To scratch to pieces. [Obs.] -- Chaucer. Torah
Torbernite (n.) (Min.) 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.
Torc (n.) Same as Torque, 1.
Torch (n.) [C] 火炬，火把；【英】手電筒 A light or luminary formed of some combustible substance, as of resinous wood; a large candle or flambeau, or a lamp giving a large, flaring flame.
Torch (n.) A flashlight.
Torch (n.) A light usually carried in the hand; consists of some flammable substance.
Torch (n.) Tall-stalked very woolly mullein with densely packed yellow flowers; ancient Greeks and Romans dipped the stalks in tallow for funeral torches [syn: {common mullein}, {great mullein}, {Aaron's rod}, {flannel mullein}, {woolly mullein}, {torch}, {Verbascum thapsus}].
Torch (n.) A small portable battery-powered electric lamp [syn: {flashlight}, {torch}].
Torch (n.) A burner that mixes air and gas to produce a very hot flame [syn: {blowtorch}, {torch}, {blowlamp}].
Torch (v.) Burn maliciously, as by arson; "The madman torched the barns."
Torchbearer (n.) One whose office it is to carry a torch.
Torcher (n.) One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.
Torchlight (n.) The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.
Torchon lace () A simple thread lace worked upon a pillow with coarse thread; also, a similar lace made by machinery.
Torchwood (n.) The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, A. Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.
Torchwort (n.) The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.
Tore () imp. of Tear.
Tore (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mortimer.
Tore (n.) (Arch.) 【建】柱腳凸形圓盤；【解】圓形隆起 Same as Torus.
Tore (n.) (Geom.) Same as torus.
Tore (n.) Commonly the lowest molding at the base of a column [syn: torus, tore].
Tore (n.) The surface described by the circumference of a circle revolving about a straight line in its own plane.
Tore (n.) The solid inclosed by such a surface; -- sometimes called an anchor ring.
Toreador (n.) A bullfighter.
Toreador (n.) Someone who fights bulls [syn: bullfighter, toreador].
To-rent (imp. & p. p.) of To-rend.
To-rend (v. t.) To rend in pieces. [Obs.]
The wolf hath many a sheep and lamb to-rent. -- Chaucer.
Toret (n.) A Turret. [Obs.]
Toret (n.) A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Toreumatography (n.) A description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.
Toreumatology (n.) The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.
Toreutic (a.) (Sculp.) In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.