spiring
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪəɹɪŋ
Verb
spiring
- present participle of spire
- 1802, John Drayton, A View of South-Carolina
- spiring grass
- 1825, Benjamin Maund, The Botanic Garden: Consisting of Highly Finished Representations of Hardy Ornamental Flowering Plants, Cultivated in Great Britain : with Their Names, Classes, Orders, History, Qualities, Culture and Physiological Observations, volume 3, Simpkin & Marshal, OCLC 165907779:
- Too much heat is often given to seedlings, when raised in a hotbed or greenhouse; and the plants become spiring and weakly, in lieu of being short stemmed[sic] and strong.
- 1802, John Drayton, A View of South-Carolina
Anagrams
- prising, risping