A name suggested to Captain Parry for certain little vertical streams of vapour rising from the sea or open water in the Arctic regions, resembling the barber in North America (which see).
·noun A spiral; a curl; a whorl; a twist. II. Spire ·vi To <<Breathe>>. III. Spire ·vi To shoot fo...
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, or smoke. In polar parlance, a peculiar but natural result of the conversion of water into ice, ...
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