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Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope.

crossbow when both were used as weapons of war. Also, sometimes, such a bow of about the height of a man, as distinguished from a much shorter one. To draw the longbow, to tell large stories.

Not rising to the usual height; as, a man of low stature; a low fence.

To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.

A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

ustrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given germ cell each of these is either present or absent. The following example (using letters as symbols of the determ…

A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

ten the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection.

companying distortion, or strain. (b) An expression of the force (usually in terms of the height in feet or weight in pounds of a column of the same body) which would be necessary to elongate a prismatic body of a transverse section equal to a given unit, as a square inch or foot, to double, or to compress it to half,…

ike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.

An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.

n barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. -- Mountain beaver (Zoöl.), the sewellel. -- Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite. -- Mountain cat (Zoöl.), the catamount. See Catamount. -- Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mount…

Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

revolution." J. D. Forbes. Orbital index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the vertical height to the transverse width of the orbit, which is taken as the standard, equal to 100.

moderate excitement or action; the state of turgescence of any organ; erethism; esp., the height of venereal excitement in sexual intercourse.

nd more copper in its composition than ordinary brass contains. Its golden color is often heightened by means of lacquer of some sort, or by use of acids. Called also mosaic gold. Ormolu varnish, a varnish applied to metals, as brass, to give the appearance of gold.

An instrument for recording the height of the liquid in an endosmometer or for registering osmotic pressures.

Above the perpendicular height or length of, with an idea of measurement; as, the water, or the depth of water, was over his head, over his shoes.

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