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topping (root: top)

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Adjective, Noun
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top=ping

CIDE DICTIONARY

toppinga. 
  •  Rising above; surpassing.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Hence, assuming superiority; proud.  [1913 Webster]
    "The great and flourishing condition of some of the topping sinners of the world."  [1913 Webster]
  •  Fine; gallant.  Johnson.  [1913 Webster]
toppingn. 
  •  The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.  [1913 Webster]
  •  That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The tail of an artificial fly.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  •  something placed on top of another thing, such as a sauce or garnish on food; as, a three-scoop banana split with three different toppings; an ice-cream cone with chocolate fudge topping.  [PJC]
Topping lift (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

topping, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 pre-eminent in position, rank, etc.
2 Brit. archaic sl. excellent.
--n. anything that tops something else, esp. icing etc. on a cake.

THESAURUS

topping

Olympian, a cut above, abacus, above, acanthus, aerial, ahead, airy, altitudinous, annulet, architrave, ascendant, ascending, aspiring, astragal, bell, better, capping, capstone, chosen, cima, colossal, console, consummating, coping, corbel, cornice, crown, crowning, culminating, cyma, dentil, distinguished, dominating, drip, drop, eclipsing, elevated, eminent, ethereal, exalted, exceeding, excellent, excelling, finer, finial, first-chop, first-class, first-rate, frieze, frontispiece, frosting, greater, haughty, head, header, heading, headpiece, high, high-pitched, high-reaching, high-set, high-up, higher, icing, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, keystone, lintel, lofty, major, marked, monumental, mounting, of choice, one up on, outstanding, outtopping, over, overlooking, overtopping, prominent, rare, rivaling, sconce, soaring, spiring, steep, sublime, super, superior, superlative, supernal, surpassing, taenia, tip-top, top-drawer, top-hole, top-notch, topflight, topless, toplofty, tops, towering, towery, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, treenail, tympanum, uplifted, upper, upreared

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