*spire*

v. i. To put forth the first sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Aspired p. pr. & vb. n. Aspiring. ] [ F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See Aspirate, v. t. ] 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. [ 1913 Webster ]

My own breath still foments the fire,
Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who aspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conspired p. pr. & vb. n. Conspiring. ] [ F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit. ] 1. To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. [ 1913 Webster ]

They conspired against [ Joseph ] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have conspired against our royal person,
Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur to one end; to agree. [ 1913 Webster ]

The press, the pulpit, and the stage
Conspire to censure and expose our age. Roscommon.

Syn. -- To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plot; to plan; to combine for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who conspires; a conspirator. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. enspiren, OF. enspirer, inspirer, F. inspirer, fr. L. inspirare; pref. in- in + spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,
Inspirèd hath in every holt and heath
The tender crops. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,
The breathing instruments inspire. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. Wisdom xv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

And generous stout courage did inspire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

But dawning day new comfort hath inspired. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,
And fill his soul with thy celestial fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inspired; p. pr. & vb. n. Inspiring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breathe; to blow gently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And when the wind amongst them did inspire,
They wavèd like a penon wide dispread. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Breathed in; inhaled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or motivation. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, inspires. “Inspirer of that holy flame.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Perspired p. pr. & vb. n. Perspiring. ] [ L. perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit. ] 1. (Physiol.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. [ 1913 Webster ]

Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inspire anew. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire, as air; to breathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A native of the land where I respire
The clear air for a while. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breathe out; to exhale. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Respired p. pr. & vb. n. Respiring. ] [ L. respirare, respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F. respirer. See Spirit. ] 1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here leave me to respire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the mountains where I now respire. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] To breathe. [ Obs. ] Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spire, spir, a blade of grass, a young shoot, AS. spīr; akin to G. spier a blade of grass, Dan. spire a sprout, sprig, Sw. spira a spar, Icel. spīra. ] 1. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself. “With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A spire of land that stand apart,
Cleft from the main. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells
Just undulates upon the listening ear. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spire and top of praises. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Spired p. pr. & vb. n. Spiring. ] To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. spira coil, twist; akin to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. spire. ] 1. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spire bearer. (Paleon.) Same as Spirifer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. suspirare to breathe out, to sigh; sub under + spirare to breathe: cf. F. souspirer, OF. souspirer. ] To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fireflies that suspire
In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. suspirium. ] A long, deep breath; a sigh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Transpired p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiring. ] [ F. transpirer; L. trans across, through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] 1. (Physiol.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To evaporate from living cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired. [ 1913 Webster ]

The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To happen or come to pass; to occur. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This sense of the word, which is of comparatively recent introduction, is common in the United States, especially in the language of conversation and of newspaper writers, and is used to some extent in England. Its use, however, is censured by critics of both countries. [ 1913 Webster ]