Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TOP'PING
TOP'PING, ppr.
- Covering the top; capping; surpassing; cropping; lopping.
- adj. Fine; gallant. Johnson. [But Johnson's definition is probably incorrect.]
- Proud; assuming superiority. [This is the sense in which the common people of New England use the word, and I believe the true sense, but it is not elegant.]
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