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igh in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.

Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.

Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope.

Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. [R.] "Towery cities." Pope.

One that bestows.

The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.

A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

To tower over or above.

A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.

A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.

To lie or sail along the coast or side of; to accost. [Obs.] Whether high towering or accosting low. Spenser.

. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak.

a distance, whether by water (as in its original sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller.

A post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

A tower or an elevated work, used for the defense, or in the siege, of a fortified place. The high bastiles . . . which overtopped the walls. Holland.

the cliff That beetles o'er his base into the sea. Shak. Each beetling rampart, and each tower sublime. Wordsworth.

A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.

Of or relating to birch. He passed where Newark's stately tower Looks out from Yarrow's birchen bower. Sir W. Scott.