3. Tobacco left in the bottom of a pipe bowl; -- so called from its being often taken out and placed on top of the newly filled bowl. Also, a cigar stump. [Slang]
Top"ping, n. (Angling) The tail of an artificial fly.
Top rake. (Mech.) The angle that the front edge of the point of a tool is set back from the normal to the surface being cut.
{ ||To"rah, ||To"ra } (?), n.; pl. Toroth (#). [Heb. trh.] (Jewish Lit.) (a) A law; a precept.
A considerable body of priestly Toroth.
S. R. Driver.
(b) Divine instruction; revelation.
Tora, . . . before the time of Malachi, is generally used of the revelations of God's will made through the prophets.
T. K. Cheyne.
(c) The Pentateuch or "Law of Moses."
The Hebrew Bible is divided into three parts: (1) The Torah, "Law," or Pentateuch. (2) The Prophets . . . (3) The Kethubim, or the "Writings," generally termed Hagiographa.