Spire

spīr, n. a winding line like the threads of a screw: a curl: a wreath: a tapering body, a slender stalk, a shoot or sprout: any one of various tall gra es, rushes, or sedges—the Marram , Reed canary-gra , .: the top or summit of anything: a very acute pyramidal roof in common use over the towers of churches.— v.i. to sprout, shoot up.— v.t. to furnish with a spire.— adjs. Spīred , having a spire; Spir′ulate , spiral in form or arrangement; Spī′ry , of a spiral form: wreathed: tapering like a spire or a pyramid: abounding in spires. [Fr.,—L. spira ; Gr. speir a , anything wound round or upon a thing; akin to eirein , to fasten together in rows.]