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tower : 英英辞書
Tow"er
(), n.[OE. tour,tor,tur, F. tour, L. turris; akin to Gr. ; cf. W. twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, Turret.]
1. (Arch.) (a) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. (b) 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. (c) 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.
2. A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
Thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
Ps. lxi. 3.
3. A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
Lay trains of amorous intrigues
In towers, and curls, and periwigs.
Hudibras.
4. H
Tow"er
(), v. i.[imp. & p. p.towered (); p. pr. & vb. n.towering.] To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
On the other side an high rock towered still.
Spenser.
My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.
Shak.

Tow"er
v. t.To soar into. [Obs.] Milton.



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