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spiring


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spire  \Spire\,  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Spired};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Spiring}.] 
  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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spiring  \Spir"ing\,  a. 
  Shooting  up  in  a  spire  or  spires.  ``The  spiring  grass.'' 
  --Dryton. 




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