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Snaphance :: Snaphance (n.) A spring lock for discharging a firearm; also, the firearm to which it is attached..

Sprung :: Sprung () imp. & p. p. of Spring.

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..

Radix :: Radix (n.) A primitive word, from which spring other words; a radical; a root; an etymon..

Espringal :: Espringal (n.) An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal..

Thermae :: Thermae (n. pl.) Springs or baths of warm or hot water.

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..

Tore :: Tore (n.) The dead grass that remains on mowing land in winter and spring.

Heredity :: Heredity (n.) Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.

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..

Fillip :: Fillip (v. t.) To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger..

Springing :: Springiness (n.) The state or quality of being springly.

Ramp :: Ramp (n.) A leap; a spring; a hostile advance.

Handspring :: Handspring (n.) A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

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..

Bound :: Bound (n.) Spring from one foot to the other.

Barren :: Barren (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.

Young :: Young (n.) The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspring collectively..

Hybrid :: Hybrid (n.) The offspring of the union of two distinct species; an animal or plant produced from the mixture of two species. See Mongrel.

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