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sed for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, as the person after a bath. Towel gourd (Bot.), the fruit of the cucurbitaceous plant Luffa Ægyptiaca; also, the plant itself. The fruit is very fibrous, and, when separated from its rind and seeds, is used as a sponge or towel. Called also Egyptian bath spon…

Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc. [Written also towelling.]

gh in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.

Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope.

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. [R.] "Towery cities." Pope.

A tool used for smoothing a mold. Trowel bayonet. See Spade bayonet, under Spade. -- Fish trowel. See Fish slice, under Fish.

Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [Written also trowelled.]

As much as a trowel will hold; enough to fill a trowel.

Not borrowed; being one's own; native; original.

Not bent or arched; not bowed down. Byron.

To deprive of the entrails; to disembowel. Dr. H. More.

Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.

To strip of flowers. [R.] G. Fletcher.

Not consecrated; hence, profane; unholy; impious; wicked. In the cause of truth, no unhallowed violence . . . is either necessary or admissible. E. D. Griffin.

Not owed; as, to pay money unowed.

Want of power; weakness. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

Not powerful; weak. Cowley.

Not sorrowed for; unlamented. Beau. & Fl.

Having no vowel sounds or signs. [Written also unvowelled.] Skinner.