Definition of spring

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Spring (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.

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Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To proceed, as from a source; as, water issues from springs; light issues from the sun..
Crocus :: Crocus (n.) A genus of iridaceous plants, with pretty blossoms rising separately from the bulb or corm. C. vernus is one of the earliest of spring-blooming flowers; C. sativus produces the saffron, and blossoms in the autumn..
Leap :: Leap (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound..
Nest :: Nest (n.) A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively..
Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..
Mestizo :: Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Issue :: Issue (n.) Progeny; a child or children; offspring. In law, sometimes, in a general sense, all persons descended from a common ancestor; all lineal descendants..
Fruitless :: Fruitless (a.) Lacking, or not bearing, fruit; barren; destitute of offspring; as, a fruitless tree or shrub; a fruitless marriage..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force..
Crown-imperial :: Crown-imperial (n.) A spring-blooming plant (Fritillaria imperialis) of the Lily family, having at the top of the stalk a cluster of pendent bell-shaped flowers surmounted with a tuft of green leaves..
Sprunt :: Sprunt (n.) A leap; a spring.
Caper :: Caper (n.) A frolicsome leap or spring; a skip; a jump, as in mirth or dancing; a prank..
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Springing :: Springing (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, springs..
Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening..
Spa :: Spa (n.) A spring or mineral water; -- so called from a place of this name in Belgium.
Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..
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..
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..
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