n. A sprout or shoot of a plant.n. A stalk of grass or some similar plant; a spear.n. The continuation of the trunk in a more or less excurrent tree above the point where branching begins.n. A name of various tall grasses, as the marram, Ammophila arundinacea; the reed canary-grass, Phalaris arundinacea; and the common reed, Phragmites communis. Britten and Holland, Eng. Plant Names.n. In mining, the tube carrying the train to the charge in the blast-hole: so called from the spires of grass or rushes used for the purpose. Also called reed or rush. A body that shoots up to a point; a tapering body; a conical or pyramidal body; specifically, in architecture, the tapering part of a steeple rising above the tower; a steeple; the great pinnacle, often of wood covered with lead, frequently crowning the crossing of the nave in large churches.n. The top or uppermost point of a thing; the summit.To sprout, as grain in malting.To shoot; shoot up sharply.To shoot or send forth.To furnish with a spire or spires.n. A winding line like the thread of a screw; anything wreathed or contorted; a coil; a curl; a twist; a wreath; a spiral.n. In conchology, all the whorls of a spiral univalve above the aperture or the body-whorl, taken together as forming a turret.n. In mathematics, a point at which different leaves of a Riemann's surface are connected. Also called a spiral point.To breathe.A Middle English form of speer.n. The male of the red deer, Cervus elaphus, in its third year.