SPIRED
Etymology
Adjective
spired (not comparable)
having a spire
Anagrams
• Prides, Spider, prides, prised, redips, risped, spider
Source: Wiktionary
Spired, a.
Definition: Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired
steeple. Mason.
SPIRE
Spire, v. i. Etym: [L. spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
Definition: To breathe. [Obs.] Shenstone.
Spire, n. Etym: [OE. spire, spir, a blade of grass, a young shoot,
AS. spir; akin to G. spier a blade of grass, Dan. spire a sprout,
sprig, Sw. spira a spar, Icel. spira.]
1. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of
wheat.
An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.
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. "With glistering spires and
pinnacles adorned." Milton.
A spire of land that stand apart, Cleft from the main. Tennyson.
Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells Just undulates upon
the listening ear. Cowper.
3. (Mining)
Definition: A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in
blasting.
4. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
The spire and top of praises. Shak.
Spire, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Spired; p. pr. & vb. n. Spiring.]
Definition: To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. Emerson.
It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined
to branch into arms. Mortimer.
Spire, n. Etym: [L. spira coil, twist; akin to Gr. spire.]
1. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist. Dryden.
2. (Geom.)
Definition: The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the
straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n. Spire bearer. (Paleon.)
Same as Spirifer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition