spire
spire:
I. A coil: spīra, orbis: v.COIL .
II. Of a church, etc.: perh. turris genus quae meta in fastigium convoluta exsurgit: cf. Plin. 16, 33, 60 (where the description is of a kind of tapering cypress): *culmen undique acute fastigatum: in acutum excelsumque fastigium eductum [qualis Anglice spira dicitur].
I. A coil: spīra, orbis: v.
II. Of a church, etc.: perh. turris genus quae meta in fastigium convoluta exsurgit: cf. Plin. 16, 33, 60 (where the description is of a kind of tapering cypress): *culmen undique acute fastigatum: in acutum excelsumque fastigium eductum [qualis Anglice spira dicitur].