Definition of spring

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

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Lunette :: Lunette (n.) Any surface of semicircular or segmental form; especially, the piece of wall between the curves of a vault and its springing line..
Illutation :: Illutation (n.) The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath..
Pixie :: Pixie (n.) A low creeping evergreen plant (Pyxidanthera barbulata), with mosslike leaves and little white blossoms, found in New Jersey and southward, where it flowers in earliest spring..
Rear :: Rear (v. t.) To bring up to maturity, as young; to educate; to instruct; to foster; as, to rear offspring..
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..
Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..
Superfetation :: Superfetate (v. i.) To conceive after a prior conception, but before the birth of the offspring..
Springall :: Springald (a.) Alt. of Springal.
Octoroon :: Octoroon (n.) The offspring of a quadroon and a white person; a mestee.
Costal-nerved :: Costal-nerved (a.) Having the nerves spring from the midrib.
Hairspring :: Hairspring (n.) The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.
Clock :: Clock (n.) A machine for measuring time, indicating the hour and other divisions by means of hands moving on a dial plate. Its works are moved by a weight or a spring, and it is often so constructed as to tell the hour by the stroke of a hammer on a bell. It is not adapted, like the watch, to be carried on the person..
Shad :: Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species..
Start :: Start (n.) The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion..
Springhead :: Springhalt (n.) A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Elater :: Elater (n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.
Vault :: Vault (n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
Drumming :: Drumming (n.) The act of beating upon, or as if upon, a drum; also, the noise which the male of the ruffed grouse makes in spring, by beating his wings upon his sides..
Hepatica :: Hepatica (n.) A genus of pretty spring flowers closely related to Anemone; squirrel cup.
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