tower

name

1. The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.

   “Traitors should be sent to the Tower!”

2. A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.
3. A city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

noun

1. Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English touren, torren, torrien, from Old English *torrian, from the noun (see above).

1. To be very tall.

   “The office block towered into the sky.”

   “Potentilla and Ivory Daphne sat humpily about on the unfolded lawns, and ahead, there towered out enormous cliffs and fantastic pinnacles of what looked like Dolomite.”

2. To be high or lofty; to soar.

   “My lord protector's hawks do tower so well.”

   “When Hope, the eagle that tower’d, could see No cliff beyond him in the sky, His pinions were bent droopingly — And homeward turn’d his soften’d eye.”

3. To soar into.

   “Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky”