Topping

1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Top
2. a. Rising above; surpassing.
3. a. Hence, assuming superiority; proud.
4. a. Fine; gallant.
5. n. The act of one who tops; the act of cutting off the top.
6. n. The act of raising one extremity of a spar higher than the other.

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.