Spire is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPIRE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to rise in a tapering manner
• To breathe.
• To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire.
• assume the shape of a spire
NOUN:
• a tapering conical or pyramidal structure on the top of a building, typically a church tower.
• the continuation of a tree trunk above the point where branching begins, especially in a tree of a tapering form.
• a long tapering object
• the upper tapering part of the spiral shell of a gastropod mollusc, comprising all but the whorl containing the body.
• pointed part of a steeple
• A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat.
• 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.
• A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting.
• The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
• A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist.
• The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n.
• a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

Words related to SPIRE

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How to use SPIRE in a sentence

• A spire and a square, ivy-covered tower rose above the faint blue haze of smoke.
• My plan was to sight a spire, and then walk to the root of it, so to speak.
• The highest spire in our own country is that of Trinity Church, New York, 284 feet.
• I remember looking out of the window to see the spire of my church at Kenlis among the trees, at the point where one has the earliest view of it.
• The tower and spire are perhaps the most beautiful in this country.
• The chief building ends in a very lofty spire, with a beautiful metal umbrella above it.
• Cathedral Spire, Sentinel Rock, Yosemite and Lost Arrow Falls, and all the other points of interest that can be seen on entering the Valley.
• Its top can be seen at a great distance, looking like a spire as it towers above the heads of the trees around it.
• It is not nearly so large and its spire is not so high, these facts alone are sufficient to account for the popular view.
• The portico and spire were both of them erected by Mr.
• The church, is a richly ornamented gothic building, with a lofty spire, although only a chapel of ease to Bromsgrwe.
• The wall looked on a court where a well was, and the backs of other houses, and beyond them the spire of the Muntze Tower and the peaks of the mountains.
• The spire was not rebuilt, but the roof was renewed.
• Morris was close beside him, and remarked on this and that as they went, the spire of St.
• From the spire of the Cathedral hung at right angles the beautiful bronze image of the Blessed Virgin, holding up her child above her head for the adoration of the world.
• One of these is set close to the wall up to the spire of the pinnacle.
• Salisbury, but for its spire, a later addition, is comparatively modest and timid.
• In old prints of the cathedral the great central spire which formerly existed is shown.
• The congregation escaped, except the seven brothers, who remained in it, but it sunk till even the summit of the spire had disappeared.
• Upon a lofty spire of granite stands a wireless telegraph instrument.
• The Church possesses a good spire, and is conspicuously situated.
• In 1594, the spire, the bells, and the church, were considerably injured by lightning.
• The most striking object in the exterior view is the modern spire, built by Scott to replace the tower which fell in 1861 while repairs to the piers were in progress.
• From every part of the town and neighborhood, its lofty spire, towering above the surrounding buildings, forces itself upon your view.
• The spire thus raised, the second of wood, but the third in chronological order, is the one which is now in existence.
• What shall be done in this dire extremity? I remember years ago hearing of a fire in Charleston in which that beautiful spire of St.
• There were the series of circular windows leading one above another, on the towers, up to the charming belfry spire which crowned them.
• From this spire the eye commanded one of the finest views in England.

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