Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Spiry \Spir"y\, a. [From {Spire} a winding line.]
   Of a spiral form; wreathed; curled; serpentine.

         Hid in the spiry volumes of the snake.   --Dryden.

Spiry \Spir"y\, a. [FR. {Spire} a steeple.]
   Of or pertaining to a spire; like a spire, tall, slender, and
   tapering; abounding in spires; as, spiry turrets. ``Spiry
   towns.'' --Thomson.