Definition of spring

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Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle..

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Basilary :: Basilary (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.
Springtide :: Springtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura..
Upstart :: Upstart (v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A race; lineage.
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Resiliency :: Resiliency (n.) The act of resiling, springing back, or rebounding; as, the resilience of a ball or of sound..
Combe :: Combe (n.) That unwatered portion of a valley which forms its continuation beyond and above the most elevated spring that issues into it.
Overwind :: Overwind (v. t.) To wind too tightly, as a spring, or too far, as a hoisting rope on a drum..
Arise :: Arise (v. i.) To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise..
Greenwood :: Greenwood (n.) A forest as it appears is spring and summer.
Interrupter :: Interrupter (n.) A device for opening and closing an electrical circuit; a vibrating spring or tuning fork, arranged to make and break a circuit at rapidly recurring intervals, by the action of the current itself..
Springhead :: Springhalt (n.) A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt.
Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are the
Jumart :: Jumart (n.) The fabled offspring of a bull and a mare.
Springboard :: Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..
Well :: Well (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.
Jerk :: Jerk (n.) A sudden start or spring.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Whiten :: Whiten (v. i.) To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms..
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