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Brobdingnagian :: Brobdingnagian (a.) Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.

Heightening :: Heightening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Heighte.

Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..

Rule :: Rule (a.) A thin plate of metal (usually brass) of the same height as the type, and used for printing lines, as between columns on the same page, or in tabular work..

Surbated :: Surbased (a.) Having the vertical height from springing line to crown less than the half span; -- said of an arch; as, a segmental arch is surbased..

Lean-faced :: Lean-faced (a.) slender or narrow; -- said of type the letters of which have thin lines, or are unusually narrow in proportion to their height..

Swoop :: Swoop (v. i.) To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop..

Undergrow :: Undergrow (v. i.) To grow to an inferior, or less than the usual, size or height..

Apomecometer :: Apomecometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the height of objects.

Proportion :: Proportion (v.) To adjust in a suitable proportion, as one thing or one part to another; as, to proportion the size of a building to its height; to proportion our expenditures to our income..

Water Gauge :: Water gauge () An instrument for measuring or ascertaining the depth or quantity of water, or for indicating the height of its surface, as in the boiler of a steam engine. See Gauge..

Agave :: Agave (n.) A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses..

Height :: Height (n.) The distance to which anything rises above its foot, above that on which in stands, above the earth, or above the level of the sea; altitude; the measure upward from a surface, as the floor or the ground, of animal, especially of a man; stature..

Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..

Pitot''s Tube :: Pitot's tube () A bent tube used to determine the velocity of running water, by placing the curved end under water, and observing the height to which the fluid rises in the tube; a kind of current meter..

Statured :: Stature (n.) The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body.

Fan :: Fan (n.) That which produces effects analogous to those of a fan, as in exciting a flame, etc.; that which inflames, heightens, or strengthens; as, it served as a fan to the flame of his passion..

Height :: Height (n.) Progress toward eminence; grade; degree.

Rise :: Rise (v.) To grow upward; to attain a certain height; as, this elm rises to the height of seventy feet..

Undergrown :: Undergrown (a.) Of small stature; not grown to a full height or size.

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