a. [f. TOWER sb.1 + -Y.]
1. Characterized by or having towers; adorned or defended with towers.
1611. Cotgr., Tourrelé, Towerie, tower-like, begirt or incompassed with towers.
1672. Dryden, 2nd Pt. Conq. Granada, III. iii. 114. The Genius of the place its Lord will meet; And bend its tow’ry forehead to your feet.
17[?]. Pope, Imit. Spenser, 54. Meandring streams, and Windsor’s tow’ry pride.
1834. J. Wilson, in Blackw. Mag., XXXVI. 842. Crowned with her towery diadem—Queen of the Sea.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, VII. I. 214. Till ye possess the towery city of Troy.
2. Rising to a lofty height; tower-like; towering; also fig. aspiring; exalted.
1731. A. Hill, Adv. Poets, xvi. 9. Hence, have all towery Minds, sublimely fir’d, With in-born Strength, to their own Heav’n aspir’d.
1738. H. Brooke, trans. Tasso’s Jerus. Del., II. Poems (1810), 376/1. One step alone ’twixt triumph and defeat, The gulfy ruin and the tow’ry height.
1825. J. Wilson, Poems, II. 114. Long ensigns brightening on the towery mast.
1870. R. R. Coverdale, Poems, 39. ’Neath towery trees that lowly bent.
3. Comb. towery-topped a., having a towery top; topped or crowned with towers.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, II. 121. A towry-topped Castle heere, wide blazeth ouer all.
