Aspire

1. n. Aspiration.
2. v. t. 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.
3. v. t. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar.
4. v. t. To aspire to; to long for; to try to reach; to mount to.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.