noun. A building or part of a building that is exceptionally high in proportion to its width and length.

noun. A tall, slender structure used for observation, signaling, or pumping.

noun. One that conspicuously embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.

noun. A computer system whose components are arranged in a vertical stack and housed in a tall, narrow cabinet.

intransitive verb. To appear at or rise to a conspicuous height; loom.

intransitive verb. To fly directly upward before swooping or falling. Used of certain birds.

intransitive verb. To demonstrate great superiority; be preeminent.

noun. In chem.: Same as distïlling-tube.

noun. A drying-apparatus of cylindrical shape: same as calcium-chlorid tube.

noun. In a railroad, a building in which are assembled the levers which control a system of switches and signals; a signalman's cabin. Signal-towers are usually two stories high, to give the signalman a view of the tracks and signals under his control. See switch-tower and signaling.

noun. In geology, a columnar protrusion of eruptive rock, such as the famous spine of Pelée on Martinique. See cumulovolcano.

noun. An obsolete form of tour.

To rise or extend far upward like a tower; rise high or aloft.

To soar aloft, as a bird; specifically

to soar as a lark in the act of singing

to rise straight up in the air, as a wounded bird (see towering, n.)

to mount up, as a hawk to be able to swoop down on the quarry.

To rise aloft into.

noun. A building lofty in proportion to its lateral dimensions, of any form in plan, whether insulated or forming part of a church, castle, or other edifice.

noun. In early and medieval warfare, a tall, movable wooden structure used in storming a fortified place.

noun. A citadel; a fortress; a place of defense or protection.

noun. In astrology, a mansion.

noun. In heraldry, a bearing representing a fortified tower with battlements and usually a gate with a portcullis.

noun. A high commode or headdress worn by women in the reigns of William III. and Anne.

noun. A wig or the natural hair built up very high.

intransitive verb. To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.

transitive verb. To soar into.

noun. undefined

noun. A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.

noun. A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.

noun. 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.

noun. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.

noun. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.

noun. High flight; elevation.

noun. a large tower or chamber used in the sulphuric acid process, to absorb (by means of concentrated acid) the spent nitrous fumes that they may be returned to the Glover's tower to be reemployed. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Glover's tower, below.

noun. a large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalytic, effect the conversion of sulphurous to sulphuric acid. See Sulphuric acid, under Sulphuric, and Gay Lussac's tower, above.

noun. See under Round, a.

noun. See under Shot.

noun. a bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.

noun. the cruciferous plant Arabis perfoliata.

noun. a collection of buildings in the eastern part of London, formerly containing a state prison, and now used as an arsenal and repository of various objects of public interest.

noun. One who tows.

noun. A structure, usually taller than it is wide, often used as a lookout, usually unsupported by guy-wires.

noun. Any item, such as a computer case, that is usually higher than it is wide.

noun. An interlocking tower.

noun. The sixteenth trump or Major Arcana card in many Tarot decks, deemed an ill omen.

verb. To be very tall.

verb. To soar into.

verb. appear very large or occupy a commanding position

noun. anything that approximates the shape of a column or tower

"For example, consider the widely accepted sixteenth-century ˜tower argument™ against the Copernican claim that the earth moves: the earth can't be moving, because a stone released from a tower will fall ˜straight down™ to the foot of the tower, and not land some distance to the west as apparently required by Copernicus."

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