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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Tope" Quotes from Famous Books



... Indian fig's 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 mango-tope, a close dark ring, Home of ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson

... it probable that the sturgeon has retained the notochordal (that is, the primitive, unsegmented) structure because it{172} is sluggish. But Dr. Guenther informs me that the sluggishness of the common tope (Galeus vulgaris) is much like that of the sturgeon, and yet the bodies of its vertebrae are distinct and well-ossified. Moreover, the great salamander of Japan is much more inert and sluggish than either, and yet it ...
— On the Genesis of Species • St. George Mivart

... read on, while just then it got our poor fellows over the last half-mile without one falling out; and then the halt was called; men wheeled into line; we were dismissed; and soon after we were lounging about, under such shade as we could manage to get in the thin tope ...
— Begumbagh - A Tale of the Indian Mutiny • George Manville Fenn



Words linked to "Tope" :   use, shrine, booze, toper, stupa, fuddle, drink



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