 2 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), verb (used without an object) [imp. {Sprang} (spr[a^]ng) or
{Sprung} (spr[u^]ng); p. p. {Sprung}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Springing}.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. &
OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr.
spe'rchesqai to hasten. Cf. {Springe}, {Sprinkle}.]
1. To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springs
From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
--Philips.
2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity;
to dart; to shoot.
And sudden light
Sprung through the vaulted roof. --Dryden.
3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
--Otway.
4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its
elastic power.
5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to
become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank,
sometimes springs in seasoning.
6. 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.
Till well nigh the day began to spring. --Chaucer.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to
cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
--Job xxxviii.
27.
Do not blast my springing hopes. --Rowe.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
--Pope.
7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to
result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to spring
Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
--Milton.
8. To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,
At whose command we perish, and we spring? --Dryden.
{To spring at}, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a
leap.
{To spring forth}, to leap out; to rush out.
{To spring in}, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.
{To spring on} or {To spring upon}, to leap on; to rush on
with haste or violence; to assault.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Springing \Spring"ing\, noun
1. The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.
2. Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a
plant.
Thou blessest the springing thereof. --Ps. lxv. 10.
{Springing line of an arch} (Arch.), the horizontal line
drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the
impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also
{spring of an arch}.
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