Definition of tower

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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..

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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..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
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..
Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..
Towering :: Towering (a.) Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing..
Tour :: Tour (n.) A tower.
Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..
Curtain :: Curtain (n.) That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc..
Watchtower :: Watchtower (n.) A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like..
Bestower :: Bestower (n.) One that bestows.
Towered :: towered (imp. & p. p.) of Towe.
Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
High :: High (superl.) Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..
Stony :: Stony (superl.) Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in, stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust..
Lantern :: Lantern (n.) A cage or open chamber of rich architecture, open below into the building or tower which it crowns..
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 citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..
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