spiry

English

Etymology

spire +‎ -y

Adjective

spiry (comparative more spiry, superlative most spiry)

  1. Like or resembling a spire.
  2. Abounding in spires.
    • 1870, Harriet Martineau, Deerbrook (page 263)
      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.
    • Dryden
      Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.
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