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n. A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem, the motion being sometimes continued by means of a whip.
n. A plug, or conical block of wood, with longitudital grooves on its surface, in which the strands of the rope slide in the process of twisting.
n. The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
n. The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
n. The highest rank; the most honorable position; the utmost attainable place; as, to be at the top of one's class, or at the top of the school.
n. The chief person; the most prominent one.
n. The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
n. The head, or upper part, of a plant.
n. A platform surrounding the head of the lower mast and projecting on all sudes. It serves to spead the topmast rigging, thus strengheningthe mast, and also furnishes a convenient standing place for the men aloft.
n. A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
n. Eve; verge; point.
n. The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
n. Top-boots.
v. i. To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
v. i. To predominate; as, topping passions.
v. i. To excel; to rise above others.
v. t. To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
v. t. To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
v. t. To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
v. t. To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
v. t. To perform eminently, or better than before.
v. t. To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.

Crossword clues for top

- Beat the best
- Best part of spinner
- Big one covers the circus in ectoplasm
- Blouse or T-shirt
- Cap peak
- Circus tent, big ...
- circus tent, the big ...
- climax
- High point
- leafy part of root vegetable
- Lid
- On ... of the world
- Opposite of bottom
- Outdo
- Pinnacle
- Point
- Spinning toy
- Summit
- T-shirt and part of bikini
- Zenith