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Spring :: Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune..

Palpocil :: Palpocil (n.) A minute soft filamentary process springing from the surface of certain hydroids and sponges.

Trona :: Trona (n.) A native double salt, consisting of a combination of neutral and acid sodium carbonate, Na2CO3.2HNaCO3.2H2O, occurring as a white crystalline fibrous deposit from certain soda brine springs and lakes; -- called also urao, and by the ancients nitrum..

Hellebore :: Hellebore (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients..

Synecdochical :: Synecdoche (n.) A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc..

Herring :: Herring (n.) One of various species of fishes of the genus Clupea, and allied genera, esp. the common round or English herring (C. harengus) of the North Atlantic. Herrings move in vast schools, coming in spring to the shores of Europe and America, where they are salted and smoked in great quantities..

Drink :: Drink (v. i.) To swallow anything liquid, for quenching thirst or other purpose; to imbibe; to receive or partake of, as if in satisfaction of thirst; as, to drink from a spring..

Osspringer :: Osspringer (n.) The osprey.

Sockdolager :: Sockdolager (n.) A combination of two hooks which close upon each other, by means of a spring, as soon as the fish bites..

Anaclastic :: Anaclastic (a.) Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass..

Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.

Well :: Well (v. i.) To issue forth, as water from the earth; to flow; to spring..

Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation..

Parnassus :: Parnassus (n.) A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring..

Africander :: Africander (n.) One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a colored mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers..

Spring :: Spring (v. t.) 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..

Basilary :: Basilary (n.) Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action.

Springboard :: Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

Arise :: Arise (v. i.) To proceed; to issue; to spring.

Vulcanology :: Vulcanology (n.) The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc..

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