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tower vb.: (of a falcon) to rise in circles of flight till she reaches her ‘place’ 2H6 II. i. 10 “My Lord Protector's hawks do so well,” Mac. II. iv. 12 “A falcon, t-ing in her pride of place” ; (hence) to soar, lit. and fig. John II. i. 350, V. ii. 149.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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