Spire /(?)/

1. To breathe. [Obs.]

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

   An oak cometh up a little spire.

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. (Arch.)

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

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

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

   The spire and top of praises.

imp. & p. p. Spired; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiring

1. To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.

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

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