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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Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..
Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To part asunder; to divide; to separate; to sever; to rend; to rive or split; as, disparted air; disparted towers..
Conning Tower :: Conning tower (n.) The shot-proof pilot house of a war vessel.
Tower :: Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense..
Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
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..
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..
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..
Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
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..
Tower :: Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar..
Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.
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..
Belfry :: Belfry (n.) A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Towered :: Towered (a.) Adorned or defended by towers.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
Phare :: Phare (n.) A beacon tower; a lighthouse.
Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..
Broach :: Broach (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
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