[f. SPIRE sb.3] Curving or coiling in spirals.
1676. Dryden, State Innoc., IV. i. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake, I lurked within the covert of a brake. Ibid. (1697), Virg. Georg., I. 334. Around our Pole the spiry Dragon glides.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 619. On spiry volumes there a Dragon rides.
1798. Sotheby, trans. Wieland’s Oberon (1826), I. 157. Soft through the ivory flows his gentle breath, And from its spiry folds sweet fairy tones ascend.
