Definition of spring

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Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard..

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Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..
Hagseed :: Hagseed (n.) The offspring of a hag.
Offspring :: Offspring (n.sing. & pl.) That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock..
Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) 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..
Saltant :: Saltant (v.) In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc..
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..
Alight :: Alight (v. i.) To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount..
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..
Syne :: Syndyasmian (a.) Pertaining to the state of pairing together sexually; -- said of animals during periods of procreation and while rearing their offspring.
Vernal :: Vernal (a.) Fig.: Belonging to youth, the spring of life..
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..
Run :: Run (a.) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
Renascible :: Renascible (a.) Capable of being reproduced; ablle to spring again into being.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A youth; a springal.
Progeny :: Progeny (n.) Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals; children; offspring; race, lineage..
Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
Nest :: Nest (n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively..
Dissilition :: Dissilition (n.) The act of bursting or springing apart.
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