[f. SPIRE v.1] The action of the verb in various senses; also concr., a shoot or sprout.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 73. Trees er cled with newe leuys, þe erthe ys fair wyth spirynges.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 376. They will be the taller and streighter by being forced up by the Wood that grows about them; tho’ a deep Soil … contributes much to their spiring.
1733. W. Ellis, Chiltern & Vale Farm., 158. It is freed from the risque of Spiring before the Nut is put into the Ground.
