Word Finder - spires

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The stalk or stem of a plant.

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A young shoot of a plant; a spear.

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Any of various tall grasses, rushes, or sedges, such as the marram, the reed canary-grass, etc.

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A sharp or tapering point.

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A tapering structure built on a roof or tower, especially as one of the central architectural features of a church or cathedral roof.

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The spire of the church rose high above the town.

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The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit.

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A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the charge in blasting.

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(of a seed, plant etc.) to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate.

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To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally.

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To furnish with a spire.

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To breathe.

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One of the sinuous foldings of a serpent or other reptile; a coil.

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A spiral.

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The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole.

The town, with its numerous spires and remains of medieval fortifications, is very picturesque.

Impressive rock spires tower above the turbid waves and plunge to a depth of 130ft.

But unfortunately for Germany the papal chair at this time was occupied by Innocent III., a pope who emulated Hildebrand in ambition and in statesmanship. At first vacillating, but by no means indifferent, Innocent was spurred to action when a number of princes met at Spires in May 1200, declared Philip to be the lawful king, and denied the right of the pope to interfere, lie was also annoyed by Philips attitude with regard to a vacancy in the archbishopric of Cologne, and in March 1201 he declared definitely for Otto.

Between the two flanking towers of the west facade, the spires of which are of the 16th century, rises a central tower of the same period.

Heidelberg is an important railway centre, and is connected by trunk lines with Frankfort, Mannheim, Karlsruhe, Spires and Wurzburg.

The cathedral, a vast basilica built of brick and white stone, with a central dome and two lofty spires above the north entrance, was founded in 1866 and consecrated in 1882.

Its majestic cathedral was built in the 13th century on the site of a Romanesque church, to which the lateral arcades of the nave and the two western towers with their high stone spires belonged.

Apart from the aesthetic considerations to which has been due the construction of spires, towers, domes, high roofs, &c., the form and height of buildings have always been largely controlled by a practical consideration of their value for personal use or rental.

Gavin Dunbar, who followed him in 1518, was enabled to complete the structure by adding the two western spires and the southern transept.

For the porcelain see Heuser, Frankenthaler Gruppen and Figuren (Spires, 18 99) .

The remains of the old church, originally erected in 1244, contain good Perpendicular work, and the family vault of the Londonderrys; there are also the parish church and Presbyterian church, with lofty spires, and a Roman Catholic chapel.

Among the churches the most important, architecturally, are the Dutch Reformed, a building with two spires, and the Anglican cathedral, which has a fine interior.

It also included a district around Mainz, Spires and Worms, on the left bank of the Rhine.

Rhenish Franconia gradually became a land of free towns and lesser nobles, and under the earlier Franconian emperors sections passed to the count palatine of the Rhine, the archbishop of Mainz, the bishops of Worms and Spires and other clerical and lay nobles; and the name Franconia, or Francia orientalis as it was then called, was confined to the eastern portion of the duchy.

The bishopric of Strassburg existed in the days of the Merovingian kings, being probably founded in the 4th century, and embraced a large territory on both banks of the Rhine, which was afterwards diminished by the creation of the bishoprics of Spires and Basel.

He was buried in the cathedral which he had begun to build at Spires.

This elevated region is broken in all directions by mountains, from which the crystalline rocks show most frequently as huge bosses, and in certain regions present very varied and picturesque outlines, resembling Titanic castles,cathedrals,domes, pyramids and spires.

The noble church of St Wulfram, Grantham, with one of the finest spires in England, is also principally Decorated; this style in fact is particularly well displayed in Kesteven, as in the churches of Caythorpe, Claypole, Navenby and Ewerby.

The polygonal angle turrets end in crocketed spires, and between them is a big pierced strapwork cresting.

The county famed for it's university city of ' Dreaming Spires ' covers an expanse of just over 1,000 square miles.

Next, on to Bryce Canyon National Park, where sandstone spires reflect colorful hues from every vista point.

The contrasts could hardly be more extreme; stark vertical rock faces and jagged spires of dolomitic limestone hang high above green forested valleys.

He watched the kites circling the tall spires of the Turkish mosque in Saladin's citadel, then looked across to the railroad station.

Views · Carfax Tower The best place from which to view Oxford's famous skyline of spires is from Carfax Tower.

Hell's been done many times in computer games, but fighting elite angels among beautiful towering spires could be cool.

Superlatives do little justice in describing the soaring granite spires of the Fitzroy group or the peaks of the Torres del Paine.

The massive and richly decorated square tower in the centre of the west façade, which for centuries terminated in a temporary spire, was completed in 1890, according to the original plans, by the addition of an octagonal storey and a tall open spire (528 ft.), the loftiest ecclesiastical erection in the world, outstripping the twin spires of Cologne cathedral by 21 ft.

The principal church buildings are the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception (Roman Catholic), a fine specimen of Gothic architecture, built of brownstone, with spires 210 ft.

After the Imperial Diet of Spires in 1526 had decreed that all states of the empire should observe the Edict of Worms (1521), banning Luther and his adherents, in such a manner that they should not be afraid to answer it before God and the emperor, the reform movement had received such an access of strength that the Catholic party felt itself menaced in earnest, and in 1529 again passed a resolution at Spires, deigned not merely to preclude any further expansion of the Reformation, but even to prevent it from maintaining the ground already won.

The feud which raged round the doctrine of the Lord's Supper had already broken out before the first diet of Spires, and had aroused great and immediate excitement.

The diet of Spires, which met in 1570, was mainly occupied in discussing measures for preventing the abuses caused by the enlistment by foreigners of German mercenary troops, but nothing was done to redress this grievance, as the estates were unwilling to accept proposals which placed more power in the emperors hands.

The whole building, and especially the west façade, which is flanked by two towers with lofty spires, is characterized by its simplicity.

One of its three Evangelical churches is the handsome Gothic church of St Aegidius, with twin spires.

They seemed to be falling right into the middle of a big city which had many tall buildings with glass domes and sharp-pointed spires.

What we had supposed to be peaks were in reality a thousand glittering spires.

Views · Carfax Tower The best place from which to view Oxford 's famous skyline of spires is from Carfax Tower.

There are 3 large spires smothered in flower in the garden at the moment.

On the summit of the next hill the spires of the cathedral can be seen.

Hell 's been done many times in computer games, but fighting elite angels among beautiful towering spires could be cool.

Here and there a few towns and cities are included symbolized by figures crowned with castles and spires.

Cape Hyacinth (Galtonia) - A noble bulb from the Cape, G. candicans having spires of waxy, white, bell-like blossoms, 1 1/2 inches long, on stems 4 to 6 feet high, in late summer and autumn.

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The cathedral's two spires, the largest of which is 349 feet tall, tower over the pale green roof.

The limestone church measures 427 feet long and 112 feet tall (without the spires).

The first choir was burned down in 1213, but was rebuilt in 1242 at the same time as the transept, and is a superb specimen of pointed Gothic. There are five towers with spires, which give the outside an impressive appearance, and much has been done towards removing the squalid buildings that formerly concealed the cathedral.

The three Gothic Protestant churches, the Marienkirche, the Nikolaikirche and the Jakobikirche, and the town-hall (Rathaus) are the principal edifices, and these with their lofty spires are very picturesque.

If the attraction of a central body is not the only force acting on the moving body, the orbit will deviate from the form of a conic section in a degree depending on the amount of the extraneous force; and the curve described may not be a re-entering curve at all, but one winding around so as to form an indefinite succession of spires.

Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country.

His brother, Johann Friedrich Hugo von Dalberg (1752-1812), canon of Trier, Worms and Spires, had some vogue as a composer and writer on musical subjects.

Spires (Speyer) is the seat of government, and the chief industrial centres are Ludwigshafen on the Rhine, which is the principal river port, Landau, and Neustadt, the seat of the wine trade.