Word Meanings - OVERTOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tower over or above.

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• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• ABOVEBOARD
  Above the board or table. Hence: in open sight; without trick, concealment, or deception. "Fair and aboveboard." Burke. Note: This expression is said by Johnson to have been borrowed from gamesters, who, when they change their cards, put their hands
• ABOVESAID
  Mentioned or recited before.
• TOWERING
  1. Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height. Pope. 2. Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing. A man agitated by a towering passion. Sir W. Scott.
• ABOVE-MENTIONED; ABOVE-NAMED
  Mentioned or named before; aforesaid.
• ABOVEDECK
  On deck; and hence, like aboveboard, without artifice. Smart.
• TOWER
  twr a tower, Ir. tor a castle, Gael. torr a tower, castle. Cf. Tor, A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion. A projection from a line of wall, as a
• TOWERY
  Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. "Towery cities." Pope.
• ABOVE-CITED
  Cited before, in the preceding part of a book or writing.
• ABOVE
  1. In or to a higher place; higher than; on or over the upper surface; over; -- opposed to below or beneath. Fowl that may fly above the earth. Gen. i. 20. 2. Figuratively, higher than; superior to in any respect; surpassing; beyond; higher in
• WATCHTOWER
  A tower in which a sentinel is placed to watch for enemies, the approach of danger, or the like.
• WATER TOWER
  A large metal pipe made to be extended vertically by sections, and used for discharging water upon burning buildings.
• MARTELLO TOWER
  A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction. Note: The English borrowed the name of the tower from Corsica in (more info)
• OVERTOWER
  To tower over or above.
• CONNING TOWER
  The shotproof pilot house of a war vessel.
• BESTOWER
  One that bestows.