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- English Word Sprocket wheel Definition Same as Chain wheel.
- English Word Sprod Definition A salmon in its second year.
- English Word Sprong Definition imp. of Spring. Sprung.
- English Word Sprout Definition To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
- English Word Sprout Definition To shoot into ramifications.
- English Word Sprout Definition To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
- English Word Sprout Definition To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
- English Word Sprout Definition The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
- English Word Sprout Definition Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts.
- English Word Sprouted Definition of Sprout
- English Word Sprouting Definition of Sprout
- English Word Spruce Definition Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
- English Word Spruce Definition The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
- English Word Spruce Definition Prussia leather; pruce.
- English Word Spruce Definition Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons.
- English Word Spruce Definition Sprightly; dashing.
- English Word Spruce Definition To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce.
- English Word Spruce Definition To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
- English Word Spruced Definition of Spruce
- English Word Sprucing Definition of Spruce
- English Word Sprue Definition Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
- English Word Sprue Definition The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
- English Word Sprue Definition Same as Sprew.
- English Word Sprug Definition To make smart.
- English Word Sprung Definition of Spring
- English Word Sprung Definition of Spring
- English Word Sprung Definition imp. & p. p. of Spring.
- English Word Sprung Definition Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
- English Word Sprunt Definition To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
- English Word Sprunt Definition Anything short and stiff.