- (v.i.) To shoot forth or up in or as if in, a spire.
- (n.) A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
- (n.) A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
- (n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
- (n.) The top or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
- (n.) 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.
- (v.i.) To breathe.
- (n.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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