(informal, dialectal) Aphetic form of inspire.

(now rare) The stalk or stem of a plant. / A young shoot of a plant; a spear. / Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. / To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. / (transitive) To furnish with a spire.

(intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.

One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil. / A spiral. / (geometry) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

plural of spire

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of spire

having a spire

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of 'spire

simple past tense and past participle of 'spire