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- English Word Sprechery Definition Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.
- English Word Spree Definition A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
- English Word Sprenge Definition To sprinkle; to scatter.
- English Word Sprengel pump Definition A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
- English Word Sprent Definition p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
- English Word Sprew Definition Thrush.
- English Word Spreynd Definition p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
- English Word Sprig Definition A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
- English Word Sprig Definition A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
- English Word Sprig Definition A brad, or nail without a head.
- English Word Sprig Definition A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
- English Word Sprig Definition To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
- English Word Sprigged Definition of Sprig
- English Word Sprigged Definition Having sprigs.
- English Word Sprigging Definition of Sprig
- English Word Spriggy Definition Full of sprigs or small branches.
- English Word Spright Definition Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
- English Word Spright Definition A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
- English Word Spright Definition A kind of short arrow.
- English Word Spright Definition To haunt, as a spright.
- English Word Sprightful Definition Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.
- English Word Sprightless Definition Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.
- English Word Sprightliness Definition The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
- English Word Sprightly Definition Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.
- English Word Sprigtail Definition The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
- English Word Sprigtail Definition The sharp-tailed grouse.
- English Word Spring Definition To leap; to bound; to jump.
- English Word Spring Definition To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
- English Word Spring Definition To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
- English Word Spring Definition To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.