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Lofty; haughty. [Obs.] Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.

r surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.

Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.

Lofty; as, hilly empire. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Near the ground; not high or lofty; not pretentious or magnificent; unpretending; unassuming; as, a humble cottage. THy humble nest built on the ground. Cowley.

esidence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses. The high and lofty One, that inhabiteth eternity. Is. lvii. 15. O, who would inhabit This bleak world alone Moore.

ensil; an implement; as, the instruments of a mechanic; astronomical instruments. All the lofty instruments of war. Shak.

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. [Obs.] he jets under his advanced plumes! Shak. To jet upon a prince's right. Shak.

A Brazilian name for the lofty myrtaceous tree (Bertholetia excelsa) which produces the large seeds known as Brazil nuts.

A lofty coniferous tree of New Zealand Agathis, or Dammara, australis), furnishing valuable timber and yielding one kind of dammar resin. [Written also kaudi, cowdie, and cowrie.]

A lofty West African tree (Khaya Senegalensis), related to the mahogany, which it resembles in the quality of the wood. The bark is used as a febrifuge.

A lofty sail, carried only when the wind is light.

Lofty; proud. [R. & Obs.] Surrey.

In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

The state or quality of being lofty.

Not lofty or sublime; humble. These rural poems, and their lowly strain. Dryden.

color. Fire burneth wood, making it . . . luminous. Bacon. The mountains lift . . . their lofty and luminous heads. Longfellow.

mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror. Be magnanimous in the enterprise. Shak. To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to law down Far more magnanimousan to assu…