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Regard :: Regard (v. t.) That view of the mind which springs from perception of value, estimable qualities, or anything that excites admiration; respect; esteem; reverence; affection; as, to have a high regard for a person; -- often in the plural..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force.

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 (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea..

Dissilition :: Dissilition (n.) The act of bursting or springing apart.

Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.

Catch-meadow :: Catch-meadow (n.) A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.

Shears :: Shears (n.) A similar instrument the blades of which are extensions of a curved spring, -- used for shearing sheep or skins..

Klipspringer :: Klipspringer (n.) A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi..

Deposit :: Deposit (v. t.) That which is deposited, or laid or thrown down; as, a deposit in a flue; especially, matter precipitated from a solution (as the siliceous deposits of hot springs), or that which is mechanically deposited (as the mud, gravel, etc., deposits of a river)..

Rebound :: Rebound (v. i.) To spring back; to start back; to be sent back or reverberated by elastic force on collision with another body; as, a rebounding echo..

Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..

Half-breed :: Half-breed (n.) A person who is blooded; the offspring of parents of different races, especially of the American Indian and the white race..

Prepotency :: Prepotency (n.) The capacity, on the part of one of the parents, as compared with the other, to transmit more than his or her own share of characteristics to their offspring..

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

Sprinkled :: Springy (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land..

Hair :: Hair (n.) A spring device used in a hair-trigger firearm.

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..

Apollinaris Water :: Apollinaris water () An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn..

Wrathful :: Wrathful (a.) Springing from, or expressing, wrath; as, a wrathful countenance..

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