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l. The careful cold beinneth for to creep. Spenser. By Him that raised me to this careful height. Shak.

Having a castle or castles; supporting a castle; as, a castled height or crag.

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic…

Height; altitude. [Obs.]

A clog, or patten, having a very thick sole, or in some cases raised upon a stilt to a height of a foot or more. [Variously spelt chioppine, chopin, etc.] Your ladyship is nearer to heaven than when I saw you last, by the altitude of a chopine. Shak.

A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

ing the cocoanut (Cocos nucifera). It grows in nearly all tropical countries, attaining a height of sixty or eighty feet. The trunk is without branches, and has a tuft of leaves at the top, each being fifteen or twenty feet in length, and at the base of these the nuts hang in clusters; the cocoanut tree.…

overlook. Bridges commanded by a fortified house. Motley. Up to the eastern tower, Whose height commands as subject all the vale. Shak. One side commands a view of the finest garden. Addison.

f headdress formerly worn by ladies, raising the hair and fore part of the cap to a great height. Or under high commodes, with looks erect. Granville.

A bracket whose projection is not more than half its height.

A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same height throughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.

a soul, sunk below the center, to the highest heavens. Bates. An upstart craned up to the height he has. Massinger.

contraction of certain muscles, external or internal. Few men can look down from a great height without creepings and crispations. O. W. Holmes.

be given in any problem. Datum line (Surv.), the horizontal or base line, from which the heights of points are reckoned or measured, as in the plan of a railway, etc.

ust have got his conscience thoroughly debauched and hardened before he can arrive to the height of sin. South. Her pride debauched her judgment and her eyes. Cowley.

; decay; as, the declension of virtue, of science, of a state, etc. Seduced the pitch and height of all his thoughts To base declension. Shak.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

An instrument to measure the height and diameter of trees.

epth of knowledge, or color. Mindful of that heavenly love Which knows no end in depth or height. Keble.

separate from anything; to disengage. [A vapor] detaching, fold by fold, From those still heights. Tennyson.