SPIRE

noun a spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.

2. spire ·vi to breathe.

3. spire ·vi to shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.

4. spire ·noun the top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

5. spire ·noun a tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.

6. spire ·noun a slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.

7. spire ·noun the part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. ·see spiral, ·noun.

8. spire ·noun 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.