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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Ojo :: Ojo (n.) A spring, surrounded by rushes or rank grass; an oasis..
Estuary :: Estuary (n.) A place where water boils up; a spring that wells forth.
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
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
Upspring :: Upspring (n.) A spring or leap into the air.
Bowel :: Bowel (n.) Offspring.
Lifespring :: Lifespring (n.) Spring or source of life.
Spawn :: Spawn (v. t.) Any product or offspring; -- used contemptuously.
Hellebore :: Hellebore (n.) A genus of perennial herbs (Helleborus) of the Crowfoot family, mostly having powerfully cathartic and even poisonous qualities. H. niger is the European black hellebore, or Christmas rose, blossoming in winter or earliest spring. H. officinalis was the officinal hellebore of the ancients..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..
Vault :: Vault (n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like..
Spring :: Springing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprin.
Springer :: Springer (n.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer..
Coil :: Coil (v. t.) To wind cylindrically or spirally; as, to coil a rope when not in use; the snake coiled itself before springing..
Bluebird :: Bluebird (n.) A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin..
Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.
Salience :: Salience (n.) The quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.
Spring :: Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant..
Germ :: Germ (n.) That from which anything springs; origin; first principle; as, the germ of civil liberty..
Springy :: Springtime (n.) The season of spring; springtide.
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