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   Top , n. [AS. top; akin to OFries. top a tuft, D. top top, OHG. zopf end, tip, tuft of hair, G. zopf tuft of hair, pigtail, top of a tree, Icel. toppr a tuft of hair, crest, top, Dan. top, Sw. topp pinnacle, top; of uncertain origin. Cf. Tuft.]
   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.
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   The star that bids the shepherd fold,
   Now the top of heaven doth hold.
   Milton.
   
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   The utmost degree; the acme; the summit.
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   The top of my ambition is to contribute to that work.
   Pope.
   
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   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.
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   And wears upon his baby brow the round
   And top of sovereignty.
   Shak.
   
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   The chief person; the most prominent one.
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   Other . . . aspired to be the top of zealots.
   Milton.
   
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   The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head. “From top to toe”
   Spenser.
   
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   All the stored vengeance of Heaven fall
   On her ungrateful top !
   Shak.
   
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   The head, or upper part, of a plant.
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   The buds . . . are called heads, or tops, as cabbageheads.
   I. Watts.
   
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   (Naut.) 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.
   Totten.
   
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   (Wool Manuf.) A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
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   Eve; verge; point. [R.] “He was upon the top of his marriage with Magdaleine.”
   Knolles.
   
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   The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
   Knight.
   
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   pl. Top-boots. [Slang]
   Dickens.
   
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   (Golf) (a) A stroke on the top of the ball. (b) A forward spin given to the ball by hitting it on or near the top.
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   ☞ Top is often used adjectively or as the first part of compound words, usually self-explaining; as, top stone, or topstone; top-boots, or top boots; top soil, or top-soil.
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   Top and but (Shipbuilding), a phrase used to denote a method of working long tapering planks by bringing the but of one plank to the top of the other to make up a constant breadth in two layers. -- Top minnow (Zool.), a small viviparous fresh-water fish (Gambusia patruelis) abundant in the Southern United States. Also applied to other similar species. -- From top to toe, from head to foot; altogether.
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