Available Definitions:
1) a. - Rising above; surpassing.
2) a. - Hence, assuming superiority; proud.
3) a. - Fine; gallant.
4) n. - The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.
5) n. - The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.
6) n. - That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling.
7) n. - The crown of the head, or the hair upon it; the head.
8) n. - The head, or upper part, of a plant.
9) 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.
10) n. - A bundle or ball of slivers of comkbed wool, from which the noils, or dust, have been taken out.
11) n. - Eve; verge; point.
12) n. - The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface.
13) n. - Top-boots.
14) v. i. - To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains.
15) v. i. - To predominate; as, topping passions.
16) v. i. - To excel; to rise above others.
17) v. t. - To cover on the top; to tip; to cap; -- chiefly used in the past participle.
18) v. t. - To rise above; to excel; to outgo; to surpass.
19) v. t. - To rise to the top of; to go over the top of.
20) v. t. - To take off the or upper part of; to crop.
21) v. t. - To perform eminently, or better than before.
22) v. t. - To raise one end of, as a yard, so that that end becomes higher than the other.