towery (toueri)

[ Rise, crown'd with light, imperial Salem, rise! Exalt thy towery head, and lift thy eyes! 2. Lofty; elevated; towering. IMG:content-0665.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-0666.png:[graphic] Pope , Me iah, 1. 86. I, who for very sport of heart would... pluck down A vulture from his towery perching. Keats , Endymion, i. towhead (tō'hed), n. [ head .] 1. A flaxen-haired person.-2. One whose hair is tousled or rumpled up like a bunch of tow.3. The hooded merganser, Lophodytes cuculla tus ; the mo head. G.Trumbull , 1888. See cut under merganser . [Southern U. S.] tow-headed (to'heded), a . Having hair resembling tow. towhee (tou'hē), n. [So called from its note.] The chewink, ground-robin, or marsh-robin of the United States, Pipilo erythrophthalmus , or any other species of the genus Pipilo : more fully called towhee bunting . Some of the western pipilos to which the name extends have, however, a cry more like the mewing of the catbird. See under pilo , and compare tuwhit and tuwhoo.- Oregon towhee, a black, white, and chestnut towhee bunting, Pipilo mаси lat us oregon us , with spotted scapulars.