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tope
CIDE DICTIONARY
tope, n. [Probably from Skr. st a tope, a stupa, through Prakrit th.].
A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic. [1913 Webster]
tope, n. [Tamil t.].
A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope. Whitworth. [1913 Webster]
tope, n.
- A small shark or dogfish (
Galeorhinus galeus syn.Galeus galeus ), native ofEurope , but found also on the coasts ofCalifornia andTasmania ; -- called alsotoper ,oil shark ,miller's dog , andpenny dog . [1913 Webster] - The wren. [1913 Webster]
tope, v. i. [F. t to cover a stake in playing at dice, to accept an offer, t agreed!; -- perhaps imitative of the sound of striking hands on concluding a bargain. From being used in English as a drinking term, probably at first in accepting a toast.].
To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess. [1913 Webster]
"If you tope in form, and treat." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tope, v.intr. archaic or literary drink alcohol to excess, esp. habitually.
Derivative
toper n.
tope, n. Ind. a grove, esp. of mangoes.
tope, n. = STUPA.
tope, n. a small shark, Galeorhinus galeus.
Etymology
perh. f. Corn.
DEVIL DICTIONARY
tope
v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.THESAURUS
tope
antenna tower, arch, barbican, barrow, beehive tomb, belfry, bell tower, bib, bocage, bone house, booze, bosk, boundary stone, box grave, brass, burial, burial chamber, burial mound, bust, cairn, campanile, catacombs, cenotaph, charnel house, cist, cist grave, colossus, column, coppice, copse, cromlech, cross, crypt, cup, cupola, cyclolith, dagoba, deep six, delubrum, derrick, dokhma, dolmen, dome, drain the cup, dram, drink, drink bottoms-up, drink deep, drink hard, drink off, drink up, fire tower, follow strong drink, footstone, gargle, grave, gravestone, grog, grove, guzzle, headstone, hoarstone, holt, holy place, house of death, hurst, imbibe, inscription, knock back, lantern, lap, lap up, last home, lighthouse, liquor up, long home, low green tent, low house, marker, martello, martello tower, mast, mastaba, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, minaret, monolith, monstrance, monument, mound, mummy chamber, naos, narrow house, necrology, nip, obelisk, obituary, observation tower, orchard, ossuarium, ossuary, pagoda, passage grave, pilaster, pillar, pinnacle, pit, plaque, pole, prize, pylon, pyramid, quaff, reliquaire, reliquary, remembrance, resting place, ribbon, rostral column, sacrarium, sepulcher, shaft, shaft grave, shaw, shrine, sip, skyscraper, soak, spinney, spire, standpipe, steeple, stela, stone, stupa, sup, tablet, tank up, television mast, testimonial, tipple, tomb, tombstone, toss down, toss off, tour, tower, tower of silence, trophy, tumulus, turret, vault, water tower, windmill tower, wood lot, woodletROGET THESAURUS
tope
Drunkenness
VB get drunk, be drunk, see double, take a drop too much, take a glass too much, drink, tipple, tope, booze, bouse, guzzle, swill, soak, sot, bum, besot, have a jag on, have a buzz on, lush, bib, swig, carouse, sacrifice at the shrine of Bacchus, take to drinking, drink hard, drink deep, drink like a fish, have one's swill, drain the cup, splice the main brace, take a hair of the dog that bit you, liquor, liquor up, wet one's whistle, take a whet, crack a bottle, pass the bottle, toss off, go to the alehouse, go to the public house, make one drunk, inebriate, fuddle, befuddle, fuzzle, get into one's head.Temple
N temple, place of worship, house of God, house of prayer, temple, cathedral, minster, church, kirk, chapel, meetinghouse, bethel, tabernacle, conventicle, basilica, fane, holy place, chantry, oratory, synagogue, mosque, marabout, pantheon, pagoda, joss house, dogobah, tope, kiosk, kiack, masjid, parsonage, rectory, vicarage, manse, deanery, glebe, Vatican, bishop's palace, Lambeth, altar, shrine, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, sacristy, sacrarium, communion table, holy table, Lord's table, table of the Lord, pyx, baptistery, font, piscina, stoup, aumbry, sedile, reredos, rood loft, rood screen, chancel, quire, choir, nave, aisle, transept, vestry, crypt, golgotha, calvary, Easter sepulcher, stall, pew, pulpit, ambo, lectern, reading desk, confessional, prothesis, credence, baldachin, baldacchino, apse, belfry, chapter house, presbytery, anxious-bench, anxious-seat, diaconicum, jube, mourner's bench, mourner's seat, cloisters, churchyard, monastery, priory, abbey, friary, convent, nunnery, cloister, claustral, cloistered, monastic, monasterial, conventual, ne vile fano, there's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple.Interment
N interment, burial, sepulture, inhumation, obsequies, exequies, funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile, cremation, funeral, funeral rite, funeral solemnity, kneel, passing bell, tolling, dirge, cypress, orbit, dead march, muffled drum, mortuary, undertaker, mute, elegy, funeral, funeral oration, funeral sermon, epitaph, graveclothes, shroud, winding sheet, cerecloth, cerement, coffin, shell, sarcophagus, urn, pall, bier, hearse, catafalque, cinerary urn, grave, pit, sepulcher, tomb, vault, crypt, catacomb, mausoleum, Golgotha, house of death, narrow house, cemetery, necropolis, burial place, burial ground, grave yard, church yard, God's acre, tope, cromlech, barrow, tumulus, cairn, ossuary, bone house, charnel house, dead house, morgue, lich gate, burning ghat, crematorium, crematory, dokhma, mastaba, potter's field, stupa, Tower of Silence, sexton, gravedigger, monument, cenotaph, shrine, grave stone, head stone, tomb stone, memento mori, hatchment, stone, obelisk, pyramid, exhumation, disinterment, necropsy, autopsy, post mortem examination, zoothapsis, burried, burial, funereal, funebrial, mortuary, sepulchral, cinerary, elegiac, necroscopic, in memoriam, post obit, post mortem, beneath the sod, hic jacet, ci-git, RIP, requiescat in pace, the lone couch of his everlasting sleep, without a grave- unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown, in the dark union of insensate dust, the deep cold shadow of the tomb, Special Vitality.Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.For further exploring for "tope" in Webster Dictionary Online
