Spire

[spaɪə] or ['spaɪr]

Definition

(v. i.) To breathe.

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

(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.

(n.) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

(n.) The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

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

(n.) A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.

(n.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.

Inputed by Cecile

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Steeple.[2]. Shoot, spear.

Inputed by Cyrus

Definition

n. a winding line like the threads of a screw: a curl: a wreath: a tapering body a slender stalk a shoot or sprout: any one of various tall grasses rushes or sedges—the Marram Reed canary-grass &c.: the top or summit of anything: a very acute pyramidal roof in common use over the towers of churches.—v.i. to sprout shoot up.—v.t. to furnish with a spire.—adjs. Spīred having a spire; Spir′ulate spiral in form or arrangement; Spī′ry of a spiral form: wreathed: tapering like a spire or a pyramid: abounding in spires.

Editor: Moll