عَلْوٌ

: see عُلْوٌ in five places.

Also A high, or an elevated, state of the base, or foundation, of a building. (TA.)

And you say, أَخَذَهُ عَلْوًا, meaning (assumed tropical:) He took him, or it, by force. (K, TA.) See also the next but one of the preceding paragraphs.