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A knoll or hill. [Obs.] "A tower on a toft." Piers Plowman.

he day after the present day; on the next day; on the morrow. Summon him to-morrow to the Tower. Shak.

To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains. Derham.

A tower; a turret. [R.] Ray.

A tower. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Threefold; triple. A lofty tower, and strong on every side With treble walls. Dryden.

y and violently; to be precipitated; as, to tumble from a scaffold. He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill. South.

A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.

Formed like a tower; as, a turreted lamp. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to a turret, or tower; resembling a tower.

Not ruined or destroyed. [Obs.] "Unruinated towers." Bp. Hall.

academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Burke. The shattered tower which now forms a vista from his window. Sir W. Scott.

n. "Heaven's wicket." Milton. And so went to the high street, . . . and came to the great tower, but the gate and wicket was fast closed. Ld. Berners. The wicket, often opened, knew the key. Dryden.

A temple tower of the Babylonians or Assyrians, consisting of a lofty pyramidal structure, built in successive stages, with outside staircases, and a shrine at the top.