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▪ I. † spired, ppl. a.1 Obs.
[f. spire v.1 1.]
Of barley: Sprouted; spoilt on this account for brewing purposes.
1548Act 2–3 Edw. VI, c. 10 §2 Any Malte not beinge well and sufficiently made, or beinge made of mowburnte or spired Barley. 1649Thorpe Charge at York Assizes 28 If any Malt-maker do not make his Malt of good and sweet Barley, not Mow-burnt or Spired Barley. 1702Guide Constables 46 Malt..made of..spired barly.
▪ II. spired, (ppl.) a.2|spaɪəd|
[f. spire n.2]
1. Having a tapering, sharp-pointed top; peaked.
1611Speed Theatr. Gt. Brit. (1614) 115 The Severne,..whose head rising from the spired mountaine Plymllimon [etc.]. 1650in Archaeol. (1779) V. 434 There is one piramide in spired pinacle of marble. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) I. 501 Black, rocky, and marked with rugged spired tops.
b. Of a steeple, tower, etc.: Provided with or carrying a spire.
Also as the second element in combs.
1610Holland Camden's Brit. 248 An exceeding high spired steeple. 1681W. Robertson Phraseol. Gen. (1693) 334 Huge spired steeples, with a gallant ring of Bells. 1682Wheler Journ. Greece ii. 202 On the top of the Hill is a round spired Tower. 1779Mason Eng. Gard. iii. 173 Of some old Fane, whose steeple's Gothic pride Or pinnacled, or spir'd, would bolder rise. 1888W. E. Henley Bk. Verses 157 Like rampired walls the houses lean, All spired and domed and turreted.
fig.1851Whittier Chapel Hermits xix, The breaking day, which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse! 1865E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 430 A great human prayer spired with faith and towering heavenward.
2. Sharply-pointed; tapering. rare.
1670–1Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1694) 16 Three Tropick Birds..with a long spired Tail as big as Pigeons.
3. Of plants: Stemmed, spiked. In combs., as high-spired, sharp-spired.
1780Beckford Italy (1834) I. 263 Above the hut, their appearance was truly formidable, bristled over with sharp⁓spired dwarf aloes. 1838M. Howitt Birds & Fl. 65, I love sweet flowers of every sort, High-spired or trailing low.
▪ III. spired, (ppl.) a.3 rare.
[f. spire n.3 or v.3]
†1. Spiral in appearance or form. Obs.—1
c1623Lodge Poor Mans Talent (Hunter. Cl.) 75 Yf it [sediment of urine] be white, equall, and spired, it signifieth that the patientt is of a good Constitution of boddie.
2. Conch. Having a spire.
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