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Spring :: Spring (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power..

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A piece attached to, or forming part of, the hammer of a gunlock, upon which the mainspring acts and in which are the notches for sear point to enter..

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

Jump :: "Jump (v. t.) To pass by a spring or leap; to overleap; as, to jump a stream..

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..

Upstart :: Upstart (v. i.) To start or spring up suddenly.

Fresh :: Fresh (n.) A stream or spring of fresh water.

Updive :: Updive (v. i.) To spring upward; to rise.

Suspiration :: Suspiral (n.) A spring of water passing under ground toward a cistern or conduit.

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.

Thysanura :: Thysanura (n. pl.) An order of wingless hexapod insects which have setiform caudal appendages, either bent beneath the body to form a spring, or projecting as bristles. It comprises the Cinura, or bristletails, and the Collembola, or springtails. Called also Thysanoura. See Lepisma, and Podura..

Hurl :: Hurl (n.) A table on which fiber is stirred and mixed by beating with a bowspring.

Elater :: Elater (n.) The caudal spring used by Podura and related insects for leaping. See Collembola.

Vacation :: Vacation (n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation..

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

Dayspring :: Dayspring (n.) The beginning of the day, or first appearance of light; the dawn; hence, the beginning..

Origin :: Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

Flisk :: Flisk (n.) A caper; a spring; a whim.

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

Self-opininating :: Self-opininating (a.) Beginning wwith, or springing from, one's self..

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