Word Meanings - TOWERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.

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• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• PLEASER
  One who pleases or gratifies.
• TOWERED
  Adorned or defended by towers. Towered cities please us then. Milton.
• DEFENDER
  One who defends; one who maintains, supports, protects, or vindicates; a champion; an advocate; a vindicator. Provinces . . . left without their ancient and puissant defenders. Motley.
• ADORNMENT
  An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
• 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.
• DEFENDABLE
  Capable of being defended; defensible.
• ADORNER
  He who, or that which, adorns; a beautifier.
• DEFENDANT
  1. Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive. With men of courage and with means defendant. Shak. 2. Making defense.
• DEFENDEE
  One who is defended.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• PLEASED
  Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
• ADORN
  To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive. As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels. Isa. lxi. 10. At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorned the venerable place.
• DEFEND
  To deny the right of the plaintiff in regard to (the suit, or the wrong charged); to oppose or resist, as a claim at law; to contest, as a suit. Burrill. Syn. -- To Defend, Protect. To defend is literally to ward off; to protect is to cover so as
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PLEASEMAN
  An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
• PLEASE
  1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
• DEFENDRESS
  A female defender. Defendress of the faith. Stow.
• 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
• OVERPLEASE
  To please excessively.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• 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.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• MEN-PLEASER
  One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.
• DISADORN
  To deprive of ornaments. Congreve.
• 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)
• DISPLEASER
  One who displeases.
• CODEFENDANT
  A joint defendant. Blackstone.