The highest point or maximum degree.
The vertical distance from the ground to the highest part of a standing person or animal (withers in the case of a horse).
The distance of something above the ground or some other chosen level.
A quality of vowels, indicating the vertical position of the tongue relative to the roof of the mouth; in practice, the first formant, associated with the height of the tongue.
A mountain, especially a very high one.
The amplitude of a sine function
The distance from the base of something to the top.
A high point.
An area of land at the top of a cliff.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.
One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
A young shoot of a plant; a spear.
A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
A spiral.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.
Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
A sharp or tapering point.
to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
To furnish with a spire.
To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.