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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[From

a winding line.]

Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

Hid in the

spiry

volumes of the snake.

Dryden.

Adj.

[FR.

a steeple.]

Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires;

as,

spiry

turrets

“Spiry towns.”

Thomson.

Adj.

Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; as the spiry volumes of a serpent.

Having the form of a pyramid; pyramidical; as spiry turrets.