tower, tour, towre

i. & t. [TOWER, 8.] A. Intransitive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. To rise aloft; to rise to a great height. "The hills and precipices within land towered up con. siderably above the tops of the trees."-Anson: Voyages, bk. ii., ch. i. 2. To rise and fly high; to soar; to be lofty or eminent. "He may descend into profoundne , or tower into sublimity." Idler, No. 1. II. Falconry : To rise like a falcon or hawk in order to descend on its prey; hence, to be on the lookout for prey. [PRIDE (1), 8., 1. 8.j *B. Trans.: To rise aloft into; to soar into. "Yet oft they quit The dark, and rising on stiff pennons, tower The mid-aerial sky." Milton P. L. , vii. 441.