Battlement: alternatives and connections

belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire; "ancient history"; "anci…

A place or tract of country, protected by fortifications, or by natural advantages, from which the operations of an army proceed, forw…

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

A fortress in or near a fortified city, commanding the city and fortifications, and intended as a final point of defense.

Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.

A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- call…

The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

a type of fortification, like a hornwork, but consisting of a full bastion with the walls on either side ending in half-bastions from…

(chemistry) The degree of structural order in a solid.; "The crystallinity of drug substances and additives is one of the fundamental…

the arrangement of defensive fortifications to protect against enemy fire

The chief tower, also called the keep; a massive tower in ancient castles, forming the strongest part of the fortifications. See Illus…

A frame (commonly) of wood serving to hold a canvas upright, or nearly upright, for the painter's convenience or for exhibition.

To raise and place in an upright or perpendicular position; to set upright; to raise; as, to erect a pole, a flagstaff, a monument, et…

The act of uniting chemically with a solid substance or in a solid form; reduction to a non-volatile condition; -- said of gaseous ele…

To defend by lateral fortifications.

To become congealed by cold; to be changed from a liquid to a solid state by the abstraction of heat; to be hardened into ice or a lik…

The part of a solid next the base, formed by cutting off the, top; or the part of any solid, as of a cone, pyramid, etc., between two…

A monkey of the upper Nile and Abyssinia (Cercopithecus griseo-viridis), having the upper parts dull green, the lower parts white, the…