Definition of spring

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Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine..

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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..
Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount..
Buck :: Buck (v. i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule..
Posterity :: Posterity (n.) The race that proceeds from a progenitor; offspring to the furthest generation; the aggregate number of persons who are descended from an ancestor of a generation; descendants; -- contrasted with ancestry; as, the posterity of Abraham..
Earthborn :: Earthborn (a.) Born of the earth; terrigenous; springing originally from the earth; human.
Axil :: Axil (n.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs..
Roil :: Roil (v.) To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring..
Spang :: Spang (n.) A bound or spring.
Bound :: Bound (n.) A leap; an elastic spring; a jump.
Gyropigeon :: Gyropigeon (n.) A flying object simulating a pigeon in flight, when projected from a spring trap. It is used as a flying target in shooting matches..
Leap :: Leap (v. i.) To spring clear of the ground, with the feet; to jump; to vault; as, a man leaps over a fence, or leaps upon a horse..
Springald :: Springal (a.) Alt. of Springal.
Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
Thermae :: Thermae (n. pl.) Springs or baths of warm or hot water.
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Late :: Late (v.) Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring..
Stram :: Stram (v. t.) To spring or recoil with violence.
Rise :: Rise (n.) The spring of a fish to seize food (as a fly) near the surface of the water.
Superfete :: Superfetation (n.) The formation of a fetus at the result of an impregnation occurring after another impregnation but before the birth of the offspring produced by it. This is possible only when there is a double uterus, or where menstruation persists up to the time of the second impregnation..
Accumulator :: Accumulator (n.) A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging..
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