The European crested titmouse.

unexcelled; of the highest grade; of greatest skill; exhibiting excellence; a topflight performance.

Full to the top, ore brim; brimfull.

A topgallant mast or sail.

kind of sandstone.

Gritty; sandy; rough; stony.

A place lying east or southeast of Jerusalem, in the valley of Hinnom.

Same as Toph.

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.

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

Of or pertaining to the ornamental cutting and trimming of trees, hedges, etc.; practicing ornamental gardening.

Of or pertaining to ornamental gardening; produced by cutting, trimming, etc.; topiarian.

Topical.

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 crest or knot of feathers upon the head or top, as of a bird; also, an ornamental knot worn on top of the head, as by women.

Having no top, or no visble fop; hence, fig.: very lofty; supreme; unequaled.

See Topsman, 2.

The second mast, or that which is next above the lower mast, and below the topgallant mast.

Highest; uppermost; as, the topmost cliff; the topmost branch of a tree.

One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land.

Of or pertaining to topography; descriptive of a place.

A topographer.

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.

a mathematician specializing in topology.

The art of, or method for, assisting the memory by associating the thing or subject to be remembered with some place.

The designation of position and direction.

A name of a place.

A system of toponyms; the use of toponyms.

A double ear trumpet for estimating the direction from which sounds proceed, esp. for the use of navigators.

One that tops, in any sense of the verb; A cover of a top layer or part. One that excels, surpasses, or is extraordinary of its kind. Any device for cutting off tops; as, a turnip topper. One who tops steel ingots. A three-square float (file) used by comb makers.

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

The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.

Same as Topping, a., 3.

To throw down; to overturn.

Small rolls of dough, baked, cut in halves, and then browned in an oven, -- used as food for infants.

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.

The chief drover of those who drive a herd of cattle.

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 kind of cap worn in the 16th century, and copied in modern fashions; -- called also toquet.

See Toque, 1.

A law; a precept.

A gateway, commonly of wood, but sometimes of stone, consisting of two upright pillars carrying one to three transverse lintels. It is often minutely carved with symbolic sculpture, and serves as a monumental approach to a Buddhist temple.

To scratch to pieces.

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.

Same as Torque, 1.

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.

one who sings torch songs.

a popular song with a sentimental theme of unrequited love or other form of unhappiness.

One whose office it is to carry a torch.

One who gives light with a torch, or as if with a torch.

The light of a torch, or of torches. Also adjectively; as, a torchlight procession.

The inflammable wood of certain trees (Amyris balsamifera, Amyris Floridana, etc.); also, the trees themselves.

The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet, anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.

Same as Torus.

A bullfighter.

A ring for fastening a hawk's leash to the jesses; also, a ring affixed to the collar of a dog, etc.

The art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.

In relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.

The saibling.

A species of Turnix (Turnix sylvatica) native of Spain and Northen Africa.

Of or pertaining to Turin. A native or inhabitant of Turin; collectively, the people of Turin.

To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.

One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.

Full of torment; causing, or accompanied by, torment; excruciating.

A rosaceous herb (Potentilla Tormentilla), the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea.

Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream.

Torture; torment.

One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures.

A woman who torments.

Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain.

acute, colicky pains; gripes.

Affected with tormina; griping.

p. p. of Tear.

A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone-- twister -->.

The peculiar free swimming larva of Balanoglossus. See Illust. in Append.

Cylindrical with alternate swellings and contractions; having the surface covered with rounded prominences.

The quality or state of being torose.

Torose.

Of or pertaining to a torpedo; resembling a torpedo; exerting a benumbing influence; stupefying; dull; torpid.

to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo.

One skilled in the theory or use of torpedoes; also, one who favors the use of torpedoes.

Having no motion or activity; incapable of motion; benumbed; torpid.

The quality or state or being torpescent; torpidness; numbness; stupidity.

Becoming torpid or numb.

An inferior racing boat, or one who rows in such a boat.

Same as Torpidness.

In a torpid manner.

The qualityy or state of being torpid.

To make torpid; to numb, or benumb.

Torpidness.

Tending to produce torpor.

Collared; having a torques, or distinct colored ring around the neck.

Having or wearing a torque, or neck chain.

A collar or neck chain, usually twisted, especially as worn by ancient barbaric nations, as the Gauls, Germans, and Britons.

Wreathed; twisted.

A cervical ring of hair or feathers, distinguished by its color or structure; a collar.

The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.

To dry by a fire.

Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.

Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .

Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.

Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.

Torridness.

The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.

A gull.

A twisted cord; also, a molded or worked ornament of similar form.

A torsel.

A plate of timber for the end of a beam or joist to rest on.

The tendency, as of a rope, to untwist after being twisted.

The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.

Of or pertaining to torsion; resulting from torsion, or the force with which a thread or wire returns to a state of rest after having been twisted round its axis; as, torsional force.

The cusk. See Cusk. The codfish. Called also tusk.

The human body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.

Stretched tight; taut.

a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for the patio process.