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SPIRE
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English : patronymic from Spire 1.
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English : habitational name from Spirewell in Devon or some other similarly named place.
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English : nickname for a tall, thin man, from Middle English spir ‘stalk’, ‘stem’. This was apparently used as a personal name or byname, in view of the fact that there are patronymic derivatives. In some Middle English dialects this word also denoted reeds, and the surname may in part have been originally a topographic name for someone who lived in a marshy area. The application to a church steeple is not attested before the 16th century, and is not a likely source of the surname.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Spiro.
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n.
A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Spire
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.
n.
A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell.
a.
Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said of certain shells.
n.
A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
n.
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.
n.
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.
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.
imp. & p. p.
of Spire
n.
A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
v. i.
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
a.
Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.
n.
The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
n.
The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
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Shooting up in a spire or spires.
n.
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
n. & v.
A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell.
a.
Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple.