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.

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.

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

The top or uppermost point of a thing.

To shoot; to shoot up pyramidically.

To breathe.

To sprout, as grain in malting.