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SPIRE, n. [L. spira; from the root of L. spiro, to breathe. The primary sense of the root is to throw, to drive, to send, but it implies a winding motion, like throw, warp, and many others.]

1. A winding line like the threads of a screw; any thing wreathed or contorted; a curl; a twist; a wreath. His neck erect amidst his circling spires. A dragon's fiery form belied the god; sublime on radiant spires he rode.

2. A body that shoots up to a point; a tapering body; a round pyramid or pyramidical body; a steeple. With glist'ring spires and pinnacles adorn'd.

3. A stalk or blade of grass or other plant. How humble ought man to be, who cannot make a single spire or grass.

4. The top or uppermost point of a thing.

SPIRE, v.i.

1. To shoot; to shoot up pyramidically.

2. To breathe. [Not in use.]

3. To sprout, as grain in malting.
1913 Definition
Spire (spire)
v. i.(?)
Spire
[L. spirare to breathe. See Spirit.]
  1. To breathe.
    [Obs.] Shenstone.
  2. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.

    An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer.

  3. 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.

  4. A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
  5. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

    The spire and top of praises. Shak.

  6. 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.

  7. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
    Dryden.
  8. 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.

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The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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