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

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

vehicle of splendor, dignity, or solemnity. [Poetic]. The gilded car of day. Milton. The towering car, the sable steeds. Tennyson.

A hollow; an arched vault; a cavity; a recess. Up to the fiery concave towering hight. Milton.

High; lofty; towering; prominent. "A very eminent promontory." Evelyn

on; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak.

haughtiness; as, a haughty carriage. Satan, with vast and haughty strides advanced, Came towering. Milton.

oar and strike like a hawk; -- generally with at; as, to hawk at flies. Dryden. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. Shak.

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

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…

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

tenebrious. -- Ten"e*brous*ness, n. The most dark, tenebrous night. J. Hall (1565). The towering and tenebrous boughts of the cypress. Longfellow.

sublunary; mundane. Vain labors of terrestrial wit. Spenser. A genius bright and base, Of towering talents, and terrestrial aims. Young.