brow vs spire

brow

noun
  • The projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill. 

  • The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow. 

  • A gallery in a coal mine running across the face of the coal. 

  • The forehead. 

  • The first tine of an antler's beam. 

  • The hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing platform; a ramp. 

  • The gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay. 

  • Aspect; appearance. 

verb
  • To bound or limit; to be at, or form, the edge of. 

spire

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

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

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

  • A young shoot of a plant; a spear. 

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

  • A spiral. 

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

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

  • A sharp or tapering point. 

verb
  • to sprout, to send forth the early shoots of growth; to germinate. 

  • To furnish with a spire. 

  • To grow upwards rather than develop horizontally. 

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