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- English Word Towered Definition Adorned or defended by towers.
- English Word towering Definition of Tower
- English Word Towering Definition Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height.
- English Word Towering Definition Hence, extreme; violent; surpassing.
- English Word Towery Definition Having towers; adorned or defended by towers.
- English Word Towhee Definition The chewink.
- English Word Towilly Definition The sanderling; -- so called from its cry.
- English Word Towing Definition of Tow
- English Word Towline Definition A line used to tow vessels; a towrope.
- English Word Town Definition Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.
- English Word Town Definition Any number or collection of houses to which belongs a regular market, and which is not a city or the see of a bishop.
- English Word Town Definition Any collection of houses larger than a village, and not incorporated as a city; also, loosely, any large, closely populated place, whether incorporated or not, in distinction from the country, or from rural communities.
- English Word Town Definition The body of inhabitants resident in a town; as, the town voted to send two representatives to the legislature; the town voted to lay a tax for repairing the highways.
- English Word Town Definition A township; the whole territory within certain limits, less than those of a country.
- English Word Town Definition The court end of London;-- commonly with the.
- English Word Town Definition The metropolis or its inhabitants; as, in winter the gentleman lives in town; in summer, in the country.
- English Word Town Definition A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.
- English Word Town-crier Definition A town officer who makes proclamations to the people; the public crier of a town.
- English Word Towned Definition Having towns; containing many towns.
- English Word Townhall Definition A public hall or building, belonging to a town, where the public offices are established, the town council meets, the people assemble in town meeting, etc.
- English Word Townhouse Definition A building devoted to the public used of a town; a townhall.
- English Word Townish Definition Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of a town; like the town.
- English Word Townless Definition Having no town.
- English Word Townlet Definition A small town.
- English Word Townpeople Definition The inhabitants of a town or city, especially in distinction from country people; townsfolk.
- English Word Townsfolk Definition The people of a town; especially, the inhabitants of a city, in distinction from country people; townspeople.
- English Word Township Definition The district or territory of a town.
- English Word Township Definition In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
- English Word Township Definition In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
- English Word Townsman Definition An inhabitant of a town; one of the same town with another.