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.-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.-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.-the utmost degree; the acme; the summit.-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.-the chief person; the most prominent one.-the crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.-the head, or upper part, of a plant.-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.-a bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.-eve; verge; point.-the part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.-top-boots.-to rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.-to predominate; as, topping passions.-to excel; to rise above others.-to cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.-to rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.-to rise to the top of; to go over the top of.-to take off the or upper part of; to crop.-to perform eminently, or better than before.-to raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.