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Definition of spire

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Spire (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..

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Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take into the lungs; to inhale; to inspire; hence, also, to utter or produce by an inhalation; to heave..

Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire..

Conjure :: Conjure (v. i.) To combine together by an oath; to conspire; to confederate.

Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing..

Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality..

Transpired :: Transpired (imp. & p. p.) of Transpir.

Enthean :: Enthean (a.) Divinely inspired; wrought up to enthusiasm.

Awe :: Awe (n.) The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence..

Acrospire :: Acrospire (v. i.) To put forth the first sprout.

Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.

Enthusiast :: Enthusiast (n.) One moved or actuated by enthusiasm; as: (a) One who imagines himself divinely inspired, or possessed of some special revelation; a religious madman; a fanatic. (b) One whose mind is wholly possessed and heated by what engages it; one who is influenced by a peculiar; fervor of mind; an ardent and imaginative person..

Squinsy :: Squinch (n.) A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon..

Whorl :: Whorl (n. & v.) A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell..

Inspire :: Inspire (v. t.) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration..

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

Conspire :: Conspire (v. i.) To concur to one end; to agree.

Aspire :: Aspire (v. t.) To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

Panic :: Panic (a.) A sudden, overpowering fright; esp., a sudden and groundless fright; terror inspired by a trifling cause or a misapprehension of danger; as, the troops were seized with a panic; they fled in a panic..

Pinnacle :: Pinnacle (n.) An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the like. Pinnacles may be considered primarily as added weight, where it is necessary to resist the thrust of an arch, etc..

Terebra :: Terebra (n.) A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell..