spiring

Verb (1)

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

1. (plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
   • In gentle Ladies breste and bounteous race / Of woman kind it fayrest Flowre doth spyre, / And beareth fruit of honour and all chast desyre.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
2. To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
3. (transitive) To furnish with a spire.

Verb (2)

spire (third-person singular simple present spires, present participle spiring, simple past and past participle spired)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To breathe.

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