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 fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.-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.-a citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.-a headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.-high flight; elevation.-to rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.-to soar into.