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n.
A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
n.
The highest part of anything; the upper end, edge, or extremity; the upper side or surface; summit; apex; vertex; cover; lid; as, the top of a spire; the top of a house; the top of a mountain; the top of the ground.
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Shooting up in a spire or spires.
v. i.
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
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Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.
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Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
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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.
n. & v.
A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
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A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
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A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
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A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
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Any one of several species of large wading birds of the family Ciconidae, having long legs and a long, pointed bill. They are found both in the Old World and in America, and belong to Ciconia and several allied genera. The European white stork (Ciconia alba) is the best known. It commonly makes its nests on the top of a building, a chimney, a church spire, or a pillar. The black stork (C. nigra) is native of Asia, Africa, and Europe.
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The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
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The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
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Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.
n.
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
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The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
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