Martello tower: alternatives and connections

The technical words of denial used in traversing what has been alleged, and is repeated.

Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fanta…

A platform projecting from the wall of a building, usually resting on brackets or consoles, and inclosed by a parapet; as, a balcony i…

A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet.

In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.

To sift; to strain; to examine thoroughly; to scrutinize; as, to canvass the votes cast at an election; to canvass a district with ref…

A bombproof chamber, usually of masonry, in which cannon may be placed, to be fired through embrasures; or one capable of being used a…

A traversing base frame, or movable railway, along which the carriage of a barbette or casemate gun moves backward and forward. [See G…

Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

A pen for animals; esp., an inclosure made with wagons, by emigrants in the vicinity of hostile Indians, as a place of security for ho…

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the dire…

One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything

Capable of being erected; susceptible of being erected of dilated.

The act of erecting, or raising upright; the act of constructing, as a building or a wall, or of fitting together the parts of, as a m…

Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions; level without inclination; plane.

A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

As a numeral, L stands for fifty in the English, as in the Latin language.

A tower or other building with a powerful light at top, erected at the entrance of a port, or at some important point on a coast, to s…