Definition of spring

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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..

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Heart :: Heart (n.) The seat of the affections or sensibilities, collectively or separately, as love, hate, joy, grief, courage, and the like; rarely, the seat of the understanding or will; -- usually in a good sense, when no epithet is expressed; the better or lovelier part of our nature; the spring of all our actions and purposes; the seat of moral life and character; the moral affections and character itself; the individual disposition and character; as, a good, tender, loving, bad, hard, or selfish h
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Bounce :: Bounce (v. i.) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room..
Caper :: Caper (v. i.) To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Grow :: Grow (v. i.) To spring up and come to matturity in a natural way; to be produced by vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries..
Metisse :: Metisse (n. f.) The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
Scorn :: Scorn (n.) Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Jerk :: Jerk (n.) A sudden start or spring.
Pendentive :: Pendentive (n.) The part of a groined vault which is supported by, and springs from, one pier or corbel..
Proletaneous :: Proletaneous (a.) Having a numerous offspring.
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..
Springle :: Springing (n.) Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant..
Lineage :: Lineage (n.) Descent in a line from a common progenitor; progeny; race; descending line of offspring or ascending line of parentage.
Vernal :: Vernal (a.) Of or pertaining to the spring; appearing in the spring; as, vernal bloom..
Upspring :: Upspring (n.) An upstart.
Vulcanology :: Vulcanology (n.) The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc..
Indicator :: Indicator (n.) An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every point of the stroke. It consists of a small cylinder communicating with the engine cylinder and fitted with a piston which the varying pressure drives upward more or less against the resistance of a spring. A lever imparts motion to a pencil which traces the diagram on a card wrapped around a vertical drum which is turned back and forth by a string connected with the pist
Beneficence :: Beneficence (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness..
Demigod :: Demigod (n.) A half god, or an inferior deity; a fabulous hero, the offspring of a deity and a mortal..
Firstling :: Firstling (n.) The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock..
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