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Having a shape broad for the height, with rectilineal and angular rather than curving outlines; as, a man of a square frame.

r wood, indefinite in quantity. Against every pillar was a stack of billets above a man's height. Bacon.

owth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase and the abating of a disease; height; acme. [Obs.]

The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of the human body. Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.

To continue in a state. The flames augment, and stay At their full height, then languish to decay. Dryden.

Height; loftiness. [Obs.] Chapman.

To refine and exalt; to heighten; to elevate. The precepts of Christianity are . . . so apt to cleanse and sublimate the more gross and corrupt. Dr. H. More.

The act of heightening or improving; exaltation; elevation; purification.

To exalt; to heighten; to improve; to purify. The sun . . . Which not alone the southern wit sublimes, But ripens spirits in cold, northern climes. Pope.

Height; completion; utmost degree. Thus have I told thee all my state, and brought My story to the sum of earthly bliss. Milton.

The height or top of anything. [Obs.] Swift.

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

lat base and carrying an adjustable pointer, for gauging the evenness of a surface or its height, or for marking a line parallel with a surface. -- Surface grub (Zoöl.), the larva of the great yellow underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often destructive to the roots of grasses and other plants. -- Surface plate…

Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.

the ends of the arms at right angles all in the same direction, and each prolonged to the height of the parallel arm of the cross. A great many modified forms exist, ogee and volute as well as rectilinear, while various decorative designs, as Greek fret or meander, are derived from or closely associated with it. The sw…

To aggravate; to heighten. It is low ebb with his accuser when such peccadilloes are put to swell the charge. Atterbury.

To descend with closed wings from a height upon prey, as a hawk; to swoop.

d comparatively slender; having the diameter or lateral extent small in proportion to the height; as, a tall person, tree, or mast. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton.

larger drawers above and smaller ones below and raised on legs fifteen inches or more in height; -- called also highboy.

The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.