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Meaning of SPIRY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Spir"y\, a. [From {Spire} a winding line.]
    Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
          Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.   --Dryden.
    
  2. \Spir"y\, a. [FR. {Spire} a steeple.]
    Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and
    tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. ``Spiry
    towns.'' --Thomson.
    
 

 

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