Tope: Definition and part of speech

Tope

  1. n. The wren.
  2. n. A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic.
  3. n. A grove or clump of trees; as, a toddy tope.
  4. n. A small shark or dogfish (Galeorhinus, / 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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