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- English Word Spring Definition To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
- English Word Spring Definition To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out.
- English Word Spring Definition To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
- English Word Spring Definition To grow; to prosper.
- English Word Spring Definition 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.
- English Word Spring Definition To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.
- English Word Spring Definition To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
- English Word Spring Definition To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
- English Word Spring Definition To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
- English Word Spring Definition To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
- English Word Spring Definition To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
- English Word Spring Definition A leap; a bound; a jump.
- English Word Spring Definition A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
- English Word Spring Definition Elastic power or force.
- English Word Spring Definition 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.
- English Word Spring Definition Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.
- English Word Spring Definition Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
- English Word Spring Definition That which springs, or is originated, from a source;
- English Word Spring Definition A race; lineage.
- English Word Spring Definition A youth; a springal.
- English Word Spring Definition A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.
- English Word Spring Definition That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.
- English Word Spring Definition The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
- English Word Spring Definition The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.
- English Word Spring Definition A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
- English Word Spring Definition A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
- English Word Springal Definition Alt. of Springall
- English Word Springal Definition An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
- English Word Springald Definition Alt. of Springall
- English Word Springall Definition An active, springly young man.