Definition of spring

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Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert..

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Sprunt :: Sprunt (v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
Beneficence :: Beneficence (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness..
Springall :: Springald (a.) Alt. of Springal.
Bound :: Bound (v. i.) To move with a sudden spring or leap, or with a succession of springs or leaps; as the beast bounded from his den; the herd bounded across the plain..
Son :: Son (n.) A male child; the male issue, or offspring, of a parent, father or mother..
Outspring :: Outspring (v. i.) To spring out; to issue.
Exilition :: Exilition (n.) A sudden springing or leaping out.
Flisk :: Flisk (n.) A caper; a spring; a whim.
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..
Manometer :: Manometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump..
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow..
Sprunt :: Sprunt (n.) A leap; a spring.
Leap :: Leap (n.) The act of leaping, or the space passed by leaping; a jump; a spring; a bound..
Barrel :: Barrel (n.) A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled..
Prolicide :: Prolicide (n.) The crime of destroying one's offspring, either in the womb or after birth..
Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To release, let fall, or see free, as a weight or compressed spring, as by removing a latch or detent..
Calve :: Calve (v. i.) To bring forth young; to produce offspring.
Sinister :: Sinister (a.) Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims..
Latent :: Latent (a.) Not visible or apparent; hidden; springs of action.
Springbuck :: Springbok (n.) Alt. of Springbuc.
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