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Definition of Spiry
1. a. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
2. a. Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets.
Definition of Spiry
1. Adjective. Like or resembling a spire. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Spiry
1. tall, slender, and tapering [adj SPIRIER, SPIRIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spiry
Literary usage of Spiry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frank Albert Waugh (1921)
"spiry-TOPPED TREE spiry-topped trees (Fig. 17) are distinguished by straight
leading stems and horizontal branches, which are comparatively small, ..."
2. Landscape Gardening by Andrew Jackson Downing, Frank Albert Waugh (1921)
"spiry-TOPPED TREE spiry-topped trees (Fig. 17) are distinguished by straight
leading stems and horizontal branches ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To turn into the resemblance of nn ape. 1'hiis <-fj>:u^i ill shape ami hew the
spiry fire, .... spiry ..."
4. London: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis by David Hughson (1808)
"... spiry town, was given, And the brown forest roughen'd wide around. But this
so dead, so Tile, submission, long Endur'd not. Unus'd to bend, impatient of ..."
5. Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices by Robert Southey (1807)
"... When meditation has her fill, I just may cast my careless eyes Where London's
spiry turrets rise, Think of its crimes, its cares, its paid; ..."
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