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(1) - Tower (v. t.) To soar into. (2) - Tower (v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar. (3) - Tower (n.) High flight; elevation. (4) - Tower (n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. (5) - Tower (n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense. (6) - Tower (n.) A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower. (7) - Tower (n.) A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher. (8) - Tower (n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. |