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Spire

Spire (spire)
v. i.(?)
Spire
[L. spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
  1. To breathe.
    [Obs.] Shenstone.

Spire

Spire (spire)
n.
Spire
  1. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.

    An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

  2. A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself.
    "With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned." Milton.

    A spire of land that stand apart,
    Cleft from the main.     Tennyson.

    Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells
    Just undulates upon the listening ear.     Cowper.

  3. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
  4. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

    The spire and top of praises. Shak.

Spire

Spire (spire)
v. i.
Spire
  1. To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
    Emerson.

    It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer.

Spire

Spire (spire)
n.
Spire
  1. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
    Dryden.
  2. The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.

    Spire bearer. (Paleon.) Same as Spirifer.













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