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 (v. t.) To soar into.
Tower :: Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar..
Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.
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..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea..
Turreted :: Turreted (a.) Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp..
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..
Martello Tower :: Martello tower () A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A bell tower, usually attached to a church or other building, but sometimes separate; a campanile..
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..
Bestower :: Bestower (n.) One that bestows.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..
Towered :: towered (imp. & p. p.) of Towe.
Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.
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