n. [ Gr. &unr_; + &unr_; anything twisted. ] (Bot.) The sprout at the end of a seed when it begins to germinate; the plumule in germination; -- so called from its spiral form. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To put forth the first sprout. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Aspired p. pr. & vb. n. Aspiring. ] [ F. aspirer, L. aspirare. See Aspirate, v. t. ] 1. To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell;
Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. [ 1913 Webster ]

My own breath still foments the fire,
Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Aspiration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who aspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Conspired p. pr. & vb. n. Conspiring. ] [ F. conspirer, L. conspirare to blow together, harmonize, agree, plot; con- + spirare to breathe, blow. See Spirit. ] 1. To make an agreement, esp. a secret agreement, to do some act, as to commit treason or a crime, or to do some unlawful deed; to plot together. [ 1913 Webster ]

They conspired against [ Joseph ] to slay him. Gen. xxxvii. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

You have conspired against our royal person,
Joined with an enemy proclaimed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To concur to one end; to agree. [ 1913 Webster ]

The press, the pulpit, and the stage
Conspire to censure and expose our age. Roscommon.

Syn. -- To unite; concur; complot; confederate; league. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To plot; to plan; to combine for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Angry clouds conspire your overthrow. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who conspires; a conspirator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. imperium a command, sovereignty, dominion, empire, fr. imperare. See Emperor; cf. Imperial. ] 1. Supreme power; sovereignty; sway; dominion. “The empire of the sea.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Over hell extend
His empire, and with iron scepter rule. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dominion of an emperor; the territory or countries under the jurisdiction and dominion of an emperor (rarely of a king), usually of greater extent than a kingdom, always comprising a variety in the nationality of, or the forms of administration in, constituent and subordinate portions; as, the Austrian empire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Empire carries with it the idea of a vast and complicated government. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any dominion; supreme control; governing influence; rule; sway; as, the empire of mind or of reason. “Under the empire of facts.” M. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another force which, in the Middle Ages, shared with chivalry the empire over the minds of men. A. W. Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

Celestial empire. See under Celestial. --
Empire City, a common designation of the city of New York. --
Empire State, a common designation of the State of New York.

Syn. -- Sway; dominion; rule; control; reign; sovereignty; government; kingdom; realm; state. [ 1913 Webster ]

. New York; -- a nickname alluding to its size and wealth. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Georgia; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Missouri; -- a nickname. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Expired p. pr & vb. n. Expiring. ] [ L. expirare, exspirare, expiratum, exspiratum; ex out + spirare to breathe: cf. F. expirer. See Spirit. ] 1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

This chafed the boar; his nostrils flames expire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors. [ 1913 Webster ]

The expiring of cold out of the inward parts of the earth in winter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To emit; to give out. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To bring to a close; to terminate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Expire the term
Of a despised life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To emit the breath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To emit the last breath; to breathe out the life; to die; as, to expire calmly; to expire in agony. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To come to an end; to cease; to terminate; to perish; to become extinct; as, the flame expired; his lease expires to-day; the month expired on Saturday. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To burst forth; to fly out with a blast. [ Obs. ] “The ponderous ball expires.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having come to an end or become void after passage of a period of time; as, an expired passport; caught driving with an expired license. Opposite of unexpired. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Umpire. [ Obs. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. enspiren, OF. enspirer, inspirer, F. inspirer, fr. L. inspirare; pref. in- in + spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate. [ 1913 Webster ]

When Zephirus eek, with his sweete breath,
Inspirèd hath in every holt and heath
The tender crops. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Descend, ye Nine, descend and sing,
The breathing instruments inspire. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

He knew not his Maker, and him that inspired into him an active soul. Wisdom xv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale; -- opposed to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forced to inspire and expire the air with difficulty. Harvey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural influence; to disclose preternaturally; to produce in, as by inspiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

And generous stout courage did inspire. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

But dawning day new comfort hath inspired. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what animates, enlivens, or exalts; to communicate inspiration to; as, to inspire a child with sentiments of virtue; to inspire a person to do extraordinary feats. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Erato, thy poet's mind inspire,
And fill his soul with thy celestial fire. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Inspired; p. pr. & vb. n. Inspiring. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To draw in breath; to inhale air into the lungs; -- opposed to expire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breathe; to blow gently. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And when the wind amongst them did inspire,
They wavèd like a penon wide dispread. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Breathed in; inhaled. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Moved or animated by, or as by, a supernatural influence; affected by divine inspiration; as, the inspired prophets; the inspired writers. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Communicated or given as by supernatural or divine inspiration; having divine authority; hence, sacred, holy; -- opposed to uninspired, profane, or secular; as, the inspired writings, that is, the Scriptures. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Moved to a higher level of thought, creativity, or motivation. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, inspires. “Inspirer of that holy flame.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. [ See Mogul, n.. ] The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars), established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The established religion of the empire was Islam. After the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in 1857 by the deposing of the last emperor. [ PJC ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Perspired p. pr. & vb. n. Perspiring. ] [ L. perspirare to breathe through; per + spirare. See Per-, and Spirit. ] 1. (Physiol.) To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To emit or evacuate through the pores of the skin; to sweat; to excrete through pores. [ 1913 Webster ]

Firs . . . perspire a fine balsam of turpentine. Smollett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pomum a fruit, LL. also, an apple + pirum a pear. ] A pearmain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fortify with a rampire; to form into a rampire. [ Archaic ] Chapman. “Rampired walls of gold.” R. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A rampart. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Trojans round the place a rampire cast. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To inspire anew. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To breathe in and out; to inspire and expire, as air; to breathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

A native of the land where I respire
The clear air for a while. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To breathe out; to exhale. [ R. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Respired p. pr. & vb. n. Respiring. ] [ L. respirare, respiratum; pref. re- re- + spirare to breathe: cf. F. respirer. See Spirit. ] 1. To take breath again; hence, to take rest or refreshment. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here leave me to respire. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the mountains where I now respire. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) To breathe; to inhale air into the lungs, and exhale it from them, successively, for the purpose of maintaining the vitality of the blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] To breathe. [ Obs. ] Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. spire, spir, a blade of grass, a young shoot, AS. spīr; akin to G. spier a blade of grass, Dan. spire a sprout, sprig, Sw. spira a spar, Icel. spīra. ] 1. A slender stalk or blade in vegetation; as, a spire grass or of wheat. [ 1913 Webster ]

An oak cometh up a little spire. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself. “With glistering spires and pinnacles adorned.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A spire of land that stand apart,
Cleft from the main. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tall spire from which the sound of cheerful bells
Just undulates upon the listening ear. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mining) A tube or fuse for communicating fire to the chargen in blasting. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The top, or uppermost point, of anything; the summit. [ 1913 Webster ]

The spire and top of praises. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Spired p. pr. & vb. n. Spiring. ] To shoot forth, or up in, or as if in, a spire. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not so apt to spire up as the other sorts, being more inclined to branch into arms. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. spira coil, twist; akin to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;: cf. F. spire. ] 1. A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) The part of a spiral generated in one revolution of the straight line about the pole. See Spiral, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spire bearer. (Paleon.) Same as Spirifer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a spire; being in the form of a spire; as, a spired steeple. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. suspirare to breathe out, to sigh; sub under + spirare to breathe: cf. F. souspirer, OF. souspirer. ] To fetch a long, deep breath; to sigh; to breathe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fireflies that suspire
In short, soft lapses of transported flame. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. suspirium. ] A long, deep breath; a sigh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ardently desired or longed for; earnestly coveted. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Transpired p. pr. & vb. n. Transpiring. ] [ F. transpirer; L. trans across, through + spirare to breathe. See Spirit. ] 1. (Physiol.) To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To evaporate from living cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To escape from secrecy; to become public; as, the proceedings of the council soon transpired. [ 1913 Webster ]

The story of Paulina's and Maximilian's mutual attachment had transpired through many of the travelers. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To happen or come to pass; to occur. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This sense of the word, which is of comparatively recent introduction, is common in the United States, especially in the language of conversation and of newspaper writers, and is used to some extent in England. Its use, however, is censured by critics of both countries. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. (Physiol.) To excrete through the skin; to give off in the form of vapor; to exhale; to perspire. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) To evaporate (moisture) from living cells. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. nompere, nounpere (also impier, fr. F. impair uneven), fr. OF. nomper uneven, F. non-pair; hence the meaning, uneven, i. e., third person; non not + OF. per even, equal, peer, F. pair; cf. L. impar uneven, unequal. See Non-, and Peer, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly observed. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man, in questions of this kind, is able to be a skillful umpire between himself and others. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) A third person, who is to decide a controversy or question submitted to arbitrators in case of their disagreement. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Judge; arbitrator; referee. See Judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Umpired p. pr. & vb. n. Umpiring. ] 1. To decide as umpire; to arbitrate; to settle, as a dispute. [ 1913 Webster ]

Judges appointed to umpire the matter in contest between them, and to decide where the right lies. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To perform the duties of umpire in or for; as, to umpire a game. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act as umpire or arbitrator. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Umpirage; arbitrament. Jewel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. vampire (cf. It. vampiro, G. & D. vampir), fr. Servian vampir. ] [ Written also vampyre. ] 1. A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition was once prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730. The vampire was often said to have the ability to transform itself into the form of a bat, as presented in the novel depicting the legend of Dracula published by Bram Stoker in 1897, which has inspired several movies. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

The persons who turn vampires are generally wizards, witches, suicides, and persons who have come to a violent end, or have been cursed by their parents or by the church, Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: One who lives by preying on others; an extortioner; a bloodsucker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla; also called vampire bat. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Any one of several species of harmless tropical American bats of the genus Vampyrus, especially Vampyrus spectrum. These bats feed upon insects and fruit, but were formerly erroneously supposed to suck the blood of man and animals. Called also false vampire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vampire bat (Zool.), a vampire, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

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