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STEEPLE |
Spire |
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SPIRED |
Of Spire |
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SPIRING |
Of Spire |
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PRAISES |
Applauds as spire collapses |
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BROACH |
A spire rising from a tower. |
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SPEAR |
A shoot, as of grass; a spire. |
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PRISTINE |
Can be found in repaired spire, in mint condition |
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HELICOID |
Spiral; curved, like the spire of a univalve shell. |
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WHORL |
A volution, or turn, of the spire of a univalve shell. |
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CUPOLA |
The top of the spire of the cochlea of the ear. |
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SHAFT |
A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar
monument. |
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SPIRE |
To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. |
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CONCHOMETER |
An instrument for measuring shells, or the angle of
their spire. |
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TROCHOID |
Top-shaped; having a flat base and conical spire; -- said
of certain shells. |
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CYCLE |
One entire round in a circle or a spire; as, a cycle or set
of leaves. |
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CORONATED |
Girt about the spire with a row of tubercles or spines;
-- said of spiral shells. |
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TAPER |
A tapering form; gradual diminution of thickness in an
elongated object; as, the taper of a spire. |
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CROCKET |
An ornament often resembling curved and bent foliage,
projecting from the sloping edge of a gable, spire, etc. |
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SPIRY |
Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender,
and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. |
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TEREBRA |
A genus of marine gastropods having a long, tapering
spire. They belong to the Toxoglossa. Called also auger shell. |
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SINISTRAL |
Having the whorls of the spire revolving or rising to
the left; reversed; -- said of certain spiral shells. |
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APEX |
The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the
apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf. |
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BLADE |
Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant,
especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the
spire of grasses. |
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WEATHERCOCK |
A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because
originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire
with the wind, and showing its direction. |
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SQUINCH |
A small arch thrown across the corner of a square room to
support a superimposed mass, as where an octagonal spire or drum rests
upon a square tower; -- called also sconce, and sconcheon. |