Definition of tower

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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..

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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..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A room in a tower in which a bell is or may be hung; or a cupola or turret for the same purpose.
Towering :: towering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Towe.
Towery :: Towery (a.) Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
Watchtower :: Watchtower (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like..
Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.
Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..
Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion..
Overtower :: Overtower (v. t.) To tower over or above.
Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Turret :: Turret (n.) A revolving tower constructed of thick iron plates, within which cannon are mounted. Turrets are used on vessels of war and on land..
Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..
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