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Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

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

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

Looplight :: Looplight (n.) A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

Pane :: Pane (n.) A compartment of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes..

Tower :: Tower (n.) High flight; elevation.

Daw :: Daw (n.) A European bird of the Crow family (Corvus monedula), often nesting in church towers and ruins; a jackdaw..

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..

Babel :: Babel (n.) The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place..

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..

Tor :: Tor (n.) A tower; a turret.

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..

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..

Peel :: Peel (n.) A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep..

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..

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..

Campanile :: Campanile (n.) A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church..

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

Water Tower :: Water tower () A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings..

Turret :: Turret (n.) A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure..

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