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A small narrow opening or window in a tower or fortified wall; a loophole.

ech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body. -- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting an enemy.

A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

o crumble; to cause to waste away. [Time's] gradual touch Has moldered into beauty many a tower. Mason.

To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.

One of the prehistoric towerlike structures found in Sardinia.

To oppress by bulk; to overtower. [Obs. & R.] Shak.

To rise above the top of; to exceed in height; to tower above. "To old Pelion." Shak.

A term by which Europeans designate religious temples and tower- like buildings of the Hindoos and Buddhists of India, Farther India, China, and Japan, -- usually but not always, devoted to idol worship.

nt of a surface, or a flat space; hence, one side or face of a building; as, an octagonal tower is said to have eight panes.

of enthusiastic fondness for anything. Cogan. The bravery of his grief did put me Into a towering passion. Shak. The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still. Pope. Who walked in every path of human life, Felt every passion. Akenside. When statesmen are ruled by faction and interest…

A small tower, fort, or castle; a keep. [Scot.]

anks of men. "In cubic phalanx firm advanced." Milton. The Grecian phalanx, moveless as a tower. Pope.

A beacon tower; a lighthouse. [Obs.]

evation reached; loftiness; prime; glory; as, to be in the pride of one's life. A falcon, towering in her pride of place. Shak.

shadow proud." Chapman. "Proud titles." Shak. " The proud temple's height." Dryden. Till tower, and dome, and bridge-way proud Are mantled with a golden cloud. Keble.

A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway. Massive pylons adorned with obelisks in front. J. W. Draper.

ted persons. During the troubles of the fifteenth century, a rack was introduced into the Tower, and was occasionally used under the plea of political necessity. Macaulay.

To tower up; to be heaved up; as, the Alps rise far above the sea.