What does "spiry" mean?

Spiry: Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine. Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake. Dryden.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. "Spiry towns." Thomson.

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