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▪ I. spiring, vbl. n.1|ˈspaɪərɪŋ|
[f. spire v.1]
The action of the verb in various senses; also concr., a shoot or sprout.
c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 73 Trees er cled with newe leuys, þe erthe ys fair wyth spirynges. 1707Mortimer Husb. 376 They will be the taller and streighter by being forced up by the Wood that grows about them; tho' a deep Soil..contributes much to their spiring. 1733W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farm. 158 It is freed from the risque of Spiring before the Nut is put into the Ground.
▪ II. † ˈspiring, vbl. n.2 Obs.—1
[f. spire v.2]
A breathing; a blowing.
1534More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1061/1 Christ..bode him meruayl not therof, no more then of y⊇ spiring or mouing of the spirite or of y⊇ wind.
▪ III. spiring, ppl. a.1|ˈspaɪərɪŋ|
[f. spire v.1]
1. That spires or rises up taperingly to a point; freq. poet. or rhet., soaring aloft or reaching to a great height:
a. Of edifices, rocks, etc.
1538Leland Itin. viii. (1909) III. 59 The old building of the chirch of the abbay remayneth having ii. goodly spiring steples. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. i. iv, Carved Monuments, Spiring Colosses and high raised rents. 1738[G. Smith] Cur. Relat. II. 275 Surrounded..by spiring Rocks, some eight, some sixteen, and others thirty Foot high. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 343 Spiring summits of vast Mountains. 1800Bentham in Ess. Goth. Archit. 85 This chapel..is supported by strong spiring buttresses. 1825Stranger's Comp. Cambr. 53 From its roof rises a spiring and airy lantern. 1906Cornford Defenceless Isl. 30 The graceful lines, the spiring masts,..suggest swift motion.
b. fig. Of the spirit.
1618Lithgow Pilgr. Farewell A iij, Prayse-worthie Pilgrime, whose so spiring Sprite Restes not content, incentred in one Soyle.
c. Of trees. (Cf. spiral a.2 b.)
1707Mortimer Husb. 390 If each other of these Trees be a spiring Tree, and the odd one between, a Fruit-tree to spread. 1801Southey Thalaba i. xxiii, All trees that bend with luscious fruit,..Or point their spiring heads to heaven. 1857Thoreau Maine W. ii. (1867) 102 The lofty, spiring tops of the spruce and fir. 1886F. Caddy Footsteps J. D'Arc 12 The spiring groves of distant elm and poplar are thrown out by the white clouds.
2. Of grass or plants: Shooting, sprouting; running up into a spire or stem.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xvi. 48 Where now the sharp-edg'd scythe shears up the spiring grass. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 241 They..plough it early in the year as soon as their clay is fallowed, and then there will spring some spiring-grass that will keep it from scorching. 1863W. W. Story Roba di R. II. iv. 115 Their spiring weeds that grow out of the eaves of the..moss-stained tiles.
▪ IV. † ˈspiring, ppl. a.2 Obs.—1
[f. spire v.2]
Respiring.
1577Grange Gold. Aphrod., etc. Q iv b, Yet I forlorne a dolefull wight,..Doe wishe me set farre from the light: And ridde of this my spyring breath.
▪ V. ˈspiring, ppl. a.3 rare—1.
[f. spire v.3]
Spiral; winding spirally.
1872Tennyson Last Tourn. 510 She heard the feet of Tristram grind The spiring stone that scaled about her tower. |