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tope |
6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tope \Tope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Toped} (t[=o]pt); p. pr & vb n. {Toping}.] [F. t[^o]per to cover a stake in playing at dice, to accept an offer, t[^o]pe 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. If you tope in form and treat. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tope \Tope\ (t[=o]p), n. [Probably from Skr. st[=u]pa a tope, a stupa, through Prakrit th[=u]po.] A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tope \Tope\, n. [Tamil t[=o]ppu.] A grove or clump of trees; as a toddy tope. [India] --Whitworth. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tope \Tope\, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) A small shark or dogfish ({Galeorhinus, or 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. (Zo["o]l.) The wren. [Prov. Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: tope v : drink alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife" [syn: {drink}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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.
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