Definition of tower

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Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..

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Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..
Giver :: Giver (n.) One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes.
Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
Bestower :: Bestower (n.) One that bestows.
Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
Towery :: Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Tower :: Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar..
Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..
Tower :: Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc..
Tower :: Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..
Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower..
Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..
Overtower :: Overtower (v. i.) To soar too high.
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