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| v. i. | (?) |
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| Spring |
| [imp. Sprang (?) or Sprung ((?));
p. p. Sprung; p. pr. *** vb.
n. Springing.] [AS. springan] akin to D. *** G.
springen, OS. & OHG. springa |
To leap; to bound; to jump.
To issue with speed and violence; to move
with activity; to dart; to shoot.
To start or rise suddenly, as from a
covert.
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent,
springs back by its elastic power.
To bend from a straight direction or plane
surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank,
sometimes springs in seasoning.
To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the
light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as
streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up,
forth, or out.
To issue or proceed, as from a parent or
ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or
principle.
To grow; to prosper.
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| Spring (spring) |
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| v. t. | (?) |
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| Spring |
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To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to
rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a
pheasant.
To produce or disclose suddenly or
unexpectedly.
To cause to explode; as, to spring a
mine.
To crack or split; to bend or strain so as
to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of
a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
To bend by force, as something stiff or
strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and
allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in,
out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
To pass over by leaping; as, to
spring a fence.
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A leap; a bound; a jump.
A flying back; the resilience of a body
recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a
bow.
Elastic power or force.
An elastic body of any kind, as steel,
India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various
mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing
concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other
force.
Any source of supply; especially, the
source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth;
a natural fountain.
Any active power; that by which action, or
motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
That which springs, or is originated, from
a source;
That which causes one to spring;
specifically, a lively tune.
The season of the year when plants begin to
vegetate and grow] the vernal season, usually comprehending the months
of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the
equator.
The time of growth and progress; early
portion; first stage.
A crack
or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
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