SPIRE
\spˈa͡ɪ͡ə], \spˈaɪə], \s_p_ˈaɪə]\
Definitions of SPIRE
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To breathe.
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A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
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A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
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To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
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A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
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The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
By Oddity Software
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To breathe.
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A slender stalk or blade, as of grass; a body that tapers to a point; as, a church spire; steeple; pinnacle; a spiral, or single turn of a spiral; a twist.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To breathe.
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The tapering top of a tower; a steeple; a slender stalk, as of grass.
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A spiral; whorl; twist.
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A winding line, like the threads of a screw; a curl; a wreath; a tapering body; a steeple; a stalk or blade of grass; top.
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To shoot up pyramidically; to sprout, as grain in malting.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Anything wreathed or twisted; anything twisted and tapering to a point; a coil; a curl; the part of a body tapering to a point, as in a tower or steeple; the whorls of a shell except the lowest; a stalk or blade of grass.
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To shoot up to a point; to sprout.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
