1. a tall, acutely pointed pyramidal roof or rooflike construction upon a tower, roof, etc.
2. a similar construction forming the upper part of a steeple.
3. a tapering, pointed part of something; a tall, sharp-pointed summit, peak, or the like: the distant spires of the mountains.
4. the highest point or summit of something: the spire of a hill;the spire of one's profession.
5. a sprout or shoot of a plant, as an acrospire of grain or a blade or spear of grass.

6. to shoot or rise into spirelike form; rise or extend to a height in the manner of a spire.

1. a coil or spiral.
2. one of the series of convolutions of a coil or spiral.
3. the upper, convoluted part of a spiral shell, above the aperture.

1. a tall structure that tapers upwards to a point, esp one on a tower or roof or one that forms the upper part of a steeple
2. a slender tapering shoot or stem, such as a blade of grass
3. the apical part of any tapering formation; summit

4. to assume the shape of a spire; point up
5. to furnish with a spire or spires

1. any of the coils or turns in a spiral structure
2. the apical part of a spiral shell

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