tope

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOPE, noun A fish of the shark kind, the squalus galeus of Linne. TOPE, verb intransitive To drink hard; to drink strong or spiritus liquors to excess. If you tope in form, and treat--
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