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

Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aërial spires.

pearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

in. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.

Lofty speech; pompous language. [R.] Bailey.

High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.

Lofty in doctrine, aims, etc. [R.] Coleridge.

given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

Steep and lofty, in a literal sense; hard to climb. Those arduous pats they trod. Pope.

Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone. The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country. Darwin. We have now come to the backbone of our subject. Earle.

he air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

ds without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

head, and draw in the chin, as an expression of pride, scorn, or resentment; to assume a lofty manner; -- usually with up. "His bridling neck." Wordsworth. By her bridling up I perceived she expected to be treated hereafter not as Jenny Distaff, but Mrs. Tranquillus. Tatler.

A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church. Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures. Swift.

A leap or caper, as in dancing. "With lofty turns and caprioles." Sir J. Davies.

s; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art. That great model of chaste, lofty, and eloquence, the Book of Common Prayer. Macaulay.

uplets or verses between the acts; also, that which was thus sung by the chorus. What the lofty, grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic. Milton.

Lofty in feeling; exultant; pround; upstart. Our painted fools and cockhorse peasantry. Marlowe.