Definition of topping

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Topping (n.) The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

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Arrest :: Arrest (v. t.) The act of stopping, or restraining from further motion, etc.; stoppage; hindrance; restraint; as, an arrest of development..
Sluice :: Sluice (n.) An artifical passage for water, fitted with a valve or gate, as in a mill stream, for stopping or regulating the flow; also, a water gate or flood gate..
Obturation :: Obturation (n.) The act of stopping up, or closing, an opening..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..
Polling :: Polling (n.) The act of topping, lopping, or cropping, as trees or hedges..
Halt :: Halt (a.) Halting or stopping in walking; lame.
Stop :: Stopping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sto.
Boottopping :: Boottopping (n.) The act or process of daubing a vessel's bottom near the surface of the water with a mixture of tallow, sulphur, and resin, as a temporary protection against worms, after the slime, shells, etc., have been scraped off..
Topping :: Topping (a.) Hence, assuming superiority; proud..
Inhibition :: Inhibition (n.) A stopping or checking of an already present action; a restraining of the function of an organ, or an agent, as a digestive fluid or ferment, etc.; as, the inhibition of the respiratory center by the pneumogastric nerve; the inhibition of reflexes, etc..
Toppingly :: Toppingly (adv.) In a topping or proud manner.
Toppingly :: Toppingly (a.) Same as Topping, a., 3..
Stopple :: Stopping-out (n.) A method adopted in etching, to keep the acid from those parts which are already sufficiently corroded, by applying varnish or other covering matter with a brush, but allowing the acid to act on the other parts..
Slidometer :: Slidometer (n.) An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.
Styptic :: Styptic (a.) Producing contraction; stopping bleeding; having the quality of restraining hemorrhage when applied to the bleeding part; astringent.
Face :: Face (v. t.) To meet in front; to oppose with firmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battle..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To predominate; as, topping passions..
Topping :: Topping (n.) The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.
Oppilation :: Oppilation (n.) The act of filling or crowding together; a stopping by redundant matter; obstruction, particularly in the lower intestines..
Oakum :: Oakum (n.) The material obtained by untwisting and picking into loose fiber old hemp ropes; -- used for calking the seams of ships, stopping leaks, etc..
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