To breathe.
A Middle English form of speer.
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The male of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, in its third year.
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A sprout or shoot of a plant.
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A stalk of grass or some similar plant; a spear.
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The continuation of the trunk in a more or less excurrent tree above the point where branching begins.
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A name of various tall grasses, as the marram, Ammophila arundinacea; the reed canary-grass, Phalaris arundinacea; and the common reed, Phragmites communis. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names.
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In mining, the tube carrying the train to the charge in the blast-hole: so called from the spires of grass or rushes used for the purpose. Also called reed or rush. A body that shoots up to a point; a tapering body; a conical or pyramidal body; specifically, in architecture, the tapering part of a steeple rising above the tower; a steeple; the great pinnacle, often of wood covered with lead, frequently crowning the crossing of the nave in large churches.
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The top or uppermost point of a thing; the summit.
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A winding line like the thread of a screw; anything wreathed or contorted; a coil; a curl; a twist; a wreath; a spiral.
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In conchology, all the whorls of a spiral univalve above the aperture or the body-whorl, taken together as forming a turret.
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In mathematics, a point at which different leaves of a Riemann's surface are connected. Also called a spiral point.
To sprout, as grain in malting.
To shoot; shoot up sharply.
To shoot or send forth.
To furnish with a spire or spires.