Definition of top

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Top (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..

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Topcoat :: Topcoat (n.) An outer coat; an overcoat.
Stop :: Stop (n.) A member, plain or molded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. This takes the place, or answers the purpose, of a rebate. Also, a pin or block to prevent a drawer from sliding too far..
Shortstop :: Shortstop (n.) The player stationed in the field bewtween the second and third bases.
Metoposcopist :: Metoposcopist (n.) One versed in metoposcopy.
Counterflory :: Counterflory (a.) Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.
Unstop :: Unstop (v. t.) To free from any obstruction; to open.
Cap :: Cap (n.) A collar of iron or wood used in joining spars, as the mast and the topmast, the bowsprit and the jib boom; also, a covering of tarred canvas at the end of a rope..
Clarino :: Clarino (n.) A reed stop in an organ.
Soft :: Soft (interj.) Be quiet; hold; stop; not so fast.
Intracellular :: Intracellular (a.) Within a cell; as, the intracellular movements seen in the pigment cells, the salivary cells, and in the protoplasm of some vegetable cells..
Monerula :: Monerula (n.) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Knag :: Knag (n.) The rugged top of a hill.
Umbraculiform :: Umbraculiform (a.) Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped..
Goosewing :: Goosewing (n.) One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled.
Overslaugh :: Overslaugh (v. t.) To hinder or stop, as by an overslaugh or an impediment; as, to overslaugh a bill in a legislative body; to overslaugh a military officer, that is, to hinder his promotion or employment..
Desist :: Desist (v. i.) To cease to proceed or act; to stop; to forbear; -- often with from.
Turbinated :: Turbinated (a.) Shaped like a top, or inverted cone; narrow at the base, and broad at the apex; as, a turbinated ovary, pericarp, or root..
Cork :: Cork (n.) A stopper for a bottle or cask, cut out of cork..
Pollard :: Pollard (v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows..
Scalp :: Scalp (n.) Fig.: The top; the summit.
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