spiry

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Like or resembling a spire.
    — 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.
  2. Abounding in spires.
    — 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, […]
  3. Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.
    — Hid in the ſpiry volumes of the ſnake, / I lurk'd within the covert of a Brake; / Not yet deſcry'd.

词形变化

more spiry comparative most spiry superlative

词源

Etymology tree
English spire
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Proto-Germanic *-gaz
Proto-West Germanic *-g
Old English -iġ
Middle English -y
English -y
English spiry
From spire + -y.
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