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Tope   /toʊp/   Listen
verb
Tope  v. i.  (past & past part. toped; pres. part. toping)  To drink hard or frequently; to drink strong or spiritous liquors to excess. "If you tope in form, and treat."


noun
Tope  n.  A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.


Tope  n.  A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope. (India)


Tope  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus galeus syn. Galeus galeus), native of Europe, but found also on the coasts of California and Tasmania; called also toper, oil shark, miller's dog, and penny dog.
2.
(Zool.) The wren. (Prov. Eng.)





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"Tope" Quotes from Famous Books



... started. I believe that she was certain that her father was dead, although I had given an evasive answer when she asked me; and her terrible sense of loss, added to the horror of that time of suspense in the garden, had completely stunned her. We waited in the tope until the afternoon, ...
— Tales of Daring and Danger • George Alfred Henty
... were merchants and peddlers, who followed the camp as a matter of speculation. Amidst an indiscriminate horde, our elephant jogged lazily along, generally surrounded by eight or ten others, with whom we marched for company's sake. We usually arrived at the mango tope destined to be our camping-ground about ten o'clock in the morning, and lounged away the heat of the day in tents; towards the afternoon Jung generally went out with his gun or rifle, shooting with the former at parrots at ten yards ...
— A Journey to Katmandu • Laurence Oliphant
... my maiden kisses me I'll think that I the Sultan be; And when my cheery glass I tope, I'll fancy then I am ...
— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various
... couple of miles in advance of the column, I had been on a foraging-party with a few dragoons, and was returning peaceably to camp, when of a sudden a troop of Mahrattas burst on us from a neighboring mango-tope, in which they had been hidden: in an instant three of my men's saddles were empty, and I was left with but seven more to make head against at least thirty of these vagabond black horsemen. I never saw in my life a nobler figure than the leader of the troop—mounted ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray
... pavilion tent In which whole armies might repose, With here and there a little rent, The sunset's beauty to disclose, The bamboo boughs that sway and swing 'Neath bulbuls as the south wind blows, The mangoe-tope, a close dark ring, Home of ...
— Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan • Toru Dutt


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