tower

1. (intransitive) To be very tall.Examples: "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."; "This is itself a cheerless spot, particularly on a rainy day, when, overshadowed by the great massif of rock that towers in the background, and surrounded by the grey and cheerless quarries, it has a depressing character much in contrast with the green verdure encountered on the northern end of this interesting branch line."intransitive

2. (intransitive) To be high or lofty; to soar.Examples: "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."; "As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist."intransitive

3. (obsolete, transitive) To soar into.Examples: "Her state with oary feet; yet oft they quit The dank, and, rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid aerial sky"obsoletetransitive

1. (UK, with 'the') The Tower of London, especially seen as a place of imprisonment or punishment.Examples: "Traitors should be sent to the Tower!"UKcountableuncountable

2. (countable) A habitational surname.; Alternative form of Towers.countable

1. (attributive, from its later association with the English mint at the Tower of London) Denoting the system of weights used by the Saxon and Norman English kings in their minting of coins.attributive