Definition of spring

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Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

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Smile :: Smile (v. i.) To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty..
Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..
Cowslip :: Cowslip (n.) A common flower in England (Primula veris) having yellow blossoms and appearing in early spring. It is often cultivated in the United States.
Kick :: Kick (n.) The projection on the tang of the blade of a pocket knife, which prevents the edge of the blade from striking the spring. See Illust. of Pocketknife..
Head :: Head (v. i.) To originate; to spring; to have its source, as a river..
Flounce :: Flounce (v. i.) To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse in mire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure..
Sminthurid :: Sminthurid (n.) Any one of numerous small species of springtails, of the family Sminthuridae, -- usually found on flowers. See Illust. under Collembola..
Lick :: Lick (v.) A place where salt is found on the surface of the earth, to which wild animals resort to lick it up; -- often, but not always, near salt springs..
Elater :: Elater (n.) Any beetle of the family Elateridae, having the habit, when laid on the back, of giving a sudden upward spring, by a quick movement of the articulation between the abdomen and thorax; -- called also click beetle, spring beetle, and snapping beetle..
Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..
Produce :: Produce (v. i.) To yield or furnish appropriate offspring, crops, effects, consequences, or results..
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) Origin; lineage; family.
Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece..
Proliferous :: Proliferous (a.) Bearing offspring; -- applied to a flower from within which another is produced, or to a branch or frond from which another rises, or to a plant which is reproduced by buds or gemmae..
Earthborn :: Earthborn (a.) Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human.
Ravissant :: Ravissant (a.) In a half-raised position, as if about to spring on prey..
Viviparous :: Viviparous (a.) Producing young in a living state, as most mammals, or as those plants the offspring of which are produced alive, either by bulbs instead of seeds, or by the seeds themselves germinating on the plant, instead of falling, as they usually do; -- opposed to oviparous..
Bromine :: Bromine (n.) One of the elements, related in its chemical qualities to chlorine and iodine. Atomic weight 79.8. Symbol Br. It is a deep reddish brown liquid of a very disagreeable odor, emitting a brownish vapor at the ordinary temperature. In combination it is found in minute quantities in sea water, and in many saline springs. It occurs also in the mineral bromyrite..
Seed :: Seed (n.) Progeny; offspring; children; descendants; as, the seed of Abraham; the seed of David..
Result :: Result (v. i.) To proceed, spring, or rise, as a consequence, from facts, arguments, premises, combination of circumstances, consultation, thought, or endeavor..
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