(n.) A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually
higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that
proportion.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
(n.) A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about
the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high
headdress.
(n.) High flight; elevation.
(v. i.) To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very
high; hence, to soar.
(v. t.) To soar into.
