Spring ¹

Definition: To leap; to bound; to jump.

Spring ²

Definition: To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

Spring ³

Definition: To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Spring ⁴

Definition: To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

Spring ⁵

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.

Spring ⁶

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.

Spring ⁷

Definition: To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

Spring ⁸

Definition: To grow; to prosper.

Spring ⁹

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.

Spring ¹⁰

Definition: To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

Spring ¹¹

Definition: To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

Spring ¹²

Definition: To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

Spring ¹³

Definition: To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

Spring ¹⁴

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.

Spring ¹⁵

Definition: To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

Spring ¹⁶

Definition: A leap; a bound; a jump.

Spring ¹⁷

Definition: A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.

Spring ¹⁸

Definition: Elastic power or force.

Spring ¹⁹

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.

Spring ²⁰

Definition: Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

Spring ²¹

Definition: Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

Spring ²²

Definition: That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

Spring ²³

Definition: A race; lineage.

Spring ²⁴

Definition: A youth; a springal.

Spring ²⁵

Definition: A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

Spring ²⁶

Definition: That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Spring ²⁷

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.

Spring ²⁸

Definition: The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

Spring ²⁹

Definition: A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

spring ³⁰

Definition: a light springing movement upwards or forwards

spring ³¹

Definition: a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken"

spring ³²

Definition: the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length

spring ³³

Definition: a point at which water issues forth

spring ³⁴

Definition: a natural flow of ground water

spring ³⁵

Definition: the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year"

spring ³⁶

Definition: develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak"

spring ³⁷

Definition: produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"

spring ³⁸

Definition: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"

spring ³⁹

Definition: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?"

spring ⁴⁰

Definition: produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang a new haircut on his wife"

spring ⁴¹

Definition: develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape"