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1.nounThe stalk or stem of a plant.
2.nounA young shoot of a plant; a spear.
3.nounAny of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.
4.nounA sharp or tapering point.
5.nounA tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof."The spire of the church rose high above the town."
6.nounThe top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.
7.nounA tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.
8.verb(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.
9.verbTo grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.
10.verbTo furnish with a spire.
11.verbTo breathe.
12.nounOne of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.
13.nounA spiral.
14.nounThe part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.