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Bastile Bastille :: Bastile Bastille (n.) A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place..

Overbulk :: Overbulk (v. t.) To oppress by bulk; to overtower.

Disposer :: Disposer (n.) One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower..

Rondel :: Rondel (n.) A small round tower erected at the foot of a bastion.

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..

Towering :: Towering (a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing..

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..

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..

Tower :: Tower (n.) 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..

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..

Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

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..

Eminent :: Eminent (a.) High; lofty; towering; prominent.

Lofty :: Lofty (superl.) Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high.

Tower :: Tower (v. t.) To soar into.

Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.

Pagoda :: Pagoda (n.) A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower-like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship..

Donjon :: Donjon (n.) The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illust. of Castle..

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..

Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc..

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