Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Spere

Spere , intransitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon spyrian to inquire, properly, to follow the track; akin to Dutch speuren, German spuren, Icelandic spyrja. r171. See Spoor.]

To search; to pry; to ask; to inquire. [Provincial English & Scottish] — Jamieson

Spere , noun

[See Sphere.]

A sphere. [Obsolete] — Chaucer