Meaning of spiry | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Like or resembling a spire.
2. Abounding in spires.
3. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

Examples

“In theſe lone walls (their days eternal bound) / Theſe moſs-grown domes with ſpiry turrets crown'd, / Where awful arches make⟳ a noon-day night, / And the dim windows ſhed a ſolemn light⟳; / Thy eyes diffus'd a reconciling ray, / And gleams of glory brighten'd all the day.”

“But the calmest region is the upland, where human life is spread⟳ out beneath the bodily eye, where the mind⟳ roves from the peasant's nest to the spiry town, from the school-house to the churchyard, […]”

“Hid in the ſpiry volumes of the ſnake, / I lurk'd within the covert of a Brake; / Not yet deſcry'd.”

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