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- English Word Toweling Definition Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.
- English Word Tower Definition A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
- English Word Tower Definition 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.
- English Word Tower Definition 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.
- English Word Tower Definition A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
- English Word Tower Definition A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
- English Word Tower Definition High flight; elevation.
- English Word Tower Definition To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
- English Word Tower Definition To soar into.
- English Word towered Definition of Tower
- English Word Towered Definition Adorned or defended by towers.
- English Word towering Definition of Tower
- English Word Towering Definition Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
- English Word Towering Definition Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
- English Word Towery Definition Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
- English Word Towhee Definition The chewink.
- English Word Towilly Definition The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
- English Word Towing Definition of Tow
- English Word Towline Definition A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
- English Word Town Definition Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.