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Spring [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A leap; a bound; a jump; as of an animal.

2. The prisner with a spring from prison broke.

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

4. Elastic power or force. The soul or the mind requires relaxation, that it may recover its natural spring

5. Heavns, what a spring was in his arm.

6. An elastic body; a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it; as the spring of a watch or clock.

7. Any active power; that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.

8. --Like nature letting down the springs of life.

9. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move the heros glory--

10. A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Springs are temporary or perennial. From springs proceed rivulets, and rivulets united form rivers. Lakes and ponds are usually fed by springs.

11. The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there. Thus we say, a spring is dry.

12. A source; that from which supplies are drawn. The real Christian has in his own breast a perpetual and inexhaustible spring of joy.

13. The sacred spring whence right and honor stream.

14. Rise; original; as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9:26 .

15. Cause; original. The springs of great events are often concealed from common observation.

16. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season. This season comprehends the months of March, April and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.

17. In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. [In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.]

18. A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor. It is intended to bring her broadside to bear upon some object. A spring is also a rope extending diagonally from the stern of one ship to the head of another, to make on ship sheer off to a greater distance.

19. A plant; a shoot; a young tree. [Not in use.]

20. A youth. [Not in use.]

21. A hand; a shoulder of pork. [Not in use.]

Spring [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. preterit tense sprung, [sprang, not wholly obsolete; ] participle passive sprung.

2. To vegetate and rise out of the ground; to begin to appear; as vegetables.

3. To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job 38:27 .

4. To begin to grow.

5. The teeth of the young not sprung--

6. To proceed, as from the seed or cause.

7. Much more good of sin shall spring

8. To arise; to appear; to begin to appear or exist.

9. When the day began to spring they let her go. Judges 21:1

10. Do not blast my springing hopes.

11. To break forth; to issue into sight or notice.

12. O spring to light; auspicious babe, be born.

13. To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country. Aaron and Moses sprung from Levi.

14. To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original. The noblest title springs from virtue.

15. They found new hope to spring out of despair.

16. To grow; to thrive.

17. What makes all this but Jupiter the king, at whose command we perish and we spring

18. To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source. Water springs from reservoirs in the earth. Rivers spring from lakes or ponds.

19. To leap; to bound; to jump.

20. The mountain stag that springs from highth to highth, and bounds along the plains--

21. To fly back; to start; as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

22. To start or rise suddenly from a covert.

23. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring

24. To shoot; to issue with speed and violence.

25. And sudden light sprung through the vaulted roof--

26. To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface. Our mechanics say, a piece of timber or a plank springs in seasoning.

27. To spring at, to leap towards; to attempt to reach by a leap.

28. To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste.

29. To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out.

30. To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.

Spring [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.

2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly.

3. The nurse, surprisd with fright, starts up and leaves her bed, and springs a light.

4. [I have never heard such an expression.]

5. To start; to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden; to produce unexpectedly.

6. The friends to the cause sprang a new project.

7. [In lieu of spring the people int he United States generally use start; to start a new project.]

8. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

9. To burst; to cause to open; as, to spring a leak. When it is said, a vessel has sprung a leak, the meaning is, the leak has then commenced.

10. To crack; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

11. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap; as, to spring a trap.

12. To spring a butt, in seamens language, to loosen the end of a plank in a ships bottom.

13. To spring the luff, when a vessel yields to the helm, and sails nearer to the wind than before.

14. To spring a fence, for to leap a fence, is not a phrase used in this country.

15. To spring an arch, to set off, begin or commence an arch from an abutment or pier.

Spring [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To leap; to bound; to jump.

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

3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

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.

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

8. To grow; to prosper.

9. A leap; a bound; a jump.

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

11. Elastic power or force.

12. 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.

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

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

15. That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

16. A race; lineage.

17. A youth; a springal.

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

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

20. 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.

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

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

23. 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.

Spring [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. 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.

2. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

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

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

6. 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.

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

Spring-bok [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An African animal of the antelope kind.

Spring-halt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A kind of lameness in which a horse twitches up his legs.

Spring-head [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A fountain or source. [Useless.]

Spring-tide [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The tide which happens at or soon after the new and full moon, which rises higher than common tides.

Spring-wheat [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A species of wheat to be sown in the spring; so called in distinction from winter wheat.

Springal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A youth. [Not in use.]

Springal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Springall

Springal [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

Springald [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Springall

Springall [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An active, springly young man.

Springboard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

Springbok [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Springbuck

Springbok Encyclopedia Britannica

SPRINGBOK. See Antelope, vol. ii. p. 101.

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Springbuck [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer.

Springe [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A gin; a noose; which being fastened to an elastic body, is drawn close with a sudden spring, by which means it catches a bird.

Springe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To catch in a springe; to ensnare.

Springe [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.

Springe [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To catch in a springe; to insnare.

2. To sprinkle; to scatter.

Springer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who springs; one that rouses game.

2. A name given to the grampus.

3. In architecture, the rib of a groin or concentrated vault.

Springer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

2. A young plant.

3. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.

4. The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.

5. The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.

6. The grampus.

7. A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.

8. A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.

Springfield Encyclopedia Britannica

SPRINGFIELD, a city of the United States, capital of Illinois and the county seat of Sangamon county, 185 miles south-west of Chicago and 95 north-east of St Louis, at the intersection of the main lines of the. Chicago and Alton and the Wabash, St Louis, and Pacific Railways. It is situated in 39° 48' N. lat. and 89° 33' W. long., on a plateau 4 miles south of the Sangamon river. The State capitol (1868-1886) is constructed of Joliet marble in the form of a Greek cross, with porticos of granite; it is 385 feet long and 296 wide, and has a central dome surmounted by a lantern with a ball on the pinnacle (360 feet). It contains a general library, a law library, geological and agricultural museums, and a memorial hall of the Civil War, as well as the usual Government offices. Other buildings of note are the United States executive mansion, custom-house and post-office (1866-68), and the house formerly occupied by Lincoln. In Oak Ridge cemetery, adjacent to the city, is the Lincoln monument (1874), beneath which that president was buried. The monument, designed by Larkin G. Mead, consists of a granite obelisk, reaching a height of 98 1 / 3 feet from the centre of a spacious basement (119 ½ feet long and 72 ½ wide), which contains a catacomb and a memorial hall,—the latter a museum of Lincolniana. A bronze statue of Lincoln and four groups of figures in bronze, symbolizing the army and navy of the United States, are arranged round the foot of the obelisk. The town has a public library, two hospitals, two orphanages, and various other charitable institutions. Extensive deposits of bituminous coal occur in and near Springfield, which is the seat of extensive iron-rolling mills, watch factories, railway machine shops, plough works, and woollen, paper, and flour mills. It ...

Laid out in 1822, Springfield was selected as State capital in 1837, and was made a city in 1840.

SPRINGFIELD, a city of the United States, the county seat of Hampden county, Massachusetts, on the east bank of Connecticut river, opposite West Springfield, with which it is connected by road and railway bridges. By rail it is 98 miles west by south of Boston on the route to Albany, and it forms a very important railway junction. The western part of Springfield is built on low and level ground, the eastern on the ascent from the river valley. The streets are wide and well shaded with elm and maple. A United States arsenal (founded 1777) and armoury (1794), employing some 460 hands, is the largest in the republic. The Springfield breech-loading rifle of 45 calibre has been the regulation pattern in the United States army since 1873. A pistol-factory, car-works, manufactories of cotton and silk goods, buttons, needles, envelopes, paper, watches, skates, and brass-work may be mentioned among the industrial establishments. The city hall (1855), a Romanesque building with an audience-room capable of holding 2700 persons; the city free library (1871), a Gothic building of brick, which contains 56,000 volumes and a museum; the granite court-house; the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Michael; Christ Church, Episcopal; the Church of the Unity, a fine Gothic structure in brown stone; the South Congregational church; the office of the Boston and Albany Railroad, a massive granite block; and the high school are among the chief architectural features of the city. Races are held in Hampden Park by the river side. The population was 15,199 in 1860, 26,703 in 1870, 33,340 in 1880 (775 coloured), and 37,577 in 1885.

Springfield was settled in 1636 by William Pynchon and emigrants from Roxbury,—the determination of the founder being to limit the “town” to forty or at most fifty families. The name was at first Agawam; but the present designation was adopted in 1641 in memory of Springfield (Essex), Pynchon’s residence in his native country, England, to which he was obliged to return in 1652 to escape the clerical persecution called forth by his book on the Meritorious Price of Christ's Redemption. The town was burned by the Indians in 1675; and in 1787 the arsenal was attacked by Shays’s rebels. The opening of the Boston and Albany Railroad in 1839 was the beginning of rapid development, and the town was made a city in 1852. The manufacture of firearms carried on here during the Civil War, 1861-65, gave the city a great impulse.

SPRINGFIELD, a city of the United States, county seat of Greene county, Missouri, occupies a pleasant and healthy site on the Ozark Hills, 238 miles by rail southwest of St Louis by the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which here joins with the Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad. Springfield is the chief commercial centre of south-west Missouri, one of the great lead and zinc mining districts of the States. It contains a number of factories (cotton, wool, waggons, furniture, tobacco, &c.), and is the seat of a court-house and of Drury College (1873), which provides scientific and classical training and has a musical conservatory attached. The population was 5555 in 1870, 6522 in 1880, and in 1886 was estimated at 18,000.

Originally an Indian trading post and frontier village, Springfield was incorporated in 1830 and began to be a prosperous place at the close of the Civil War, during which it had several times changed hands and been the scene of hostilities.

SPRINGFIELD, a city of the United States, county seat of Clarke county, Ohio, lies at the confluence of Mad river and Lagonda Creek (sub-tributaries of the Ohio through the Miami), 84 miles north-east of Cincinnati, It has a large trade in the agricultural produce of the fertile and populous district in which it is pleasantly situated, and is the seat of a very large manufactory of agricultural machinery, which turns out 75,000 reapers and mowers per annum, besides grain-drills, steam-engines, cider-mills, and a great variety of articles. In 1870 the population of the city was 12,652, in 1880 20,730 (township, 24,455), and 33,484 in 1886. Among the public institutions are Wittenberg College (Lutheran), founded in 1845, and a small public library.

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Springhalt [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt.

Springhead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A fountain or source.

Springiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Elasticity; also, the power of springing.

2. The state of abounding with springs; wetness; spunginess; as of land.

Springiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being springly.

Springing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The act or process of leaping, arising, issuing or proceeding.

2. Growth; increase. Psalms 65:10 .

3. In building, the side of an arch contiguous to the part on which it rests.

Springing [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Arising; shooting up; leaping; proceeding; rousing.

2. Sprining use, in law, a contingent use; a use which may arise upon a contingency.

Springing [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.

2. Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.

Springing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Spring

Springle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A springe; a noose. [Not in use.]

Springle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A springe.

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51 KJV and 98 BSB verses contain “spring” — showing the first 20. Show all 125 verses (searchable)

Genesis 2:6

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Genesis 16:7

And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.

Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.

Genesis 24:13

Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water:

Here I am, standing beside the spring, and the daughters of the townspeople are coming out to draw water.

Genesis 24:16

And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up.

Now the girl was very beautiful, a virgin who had not had relations with any man. She went down to the spring, filled her jar, and came up again.

Genesis 24:29

And Rebekah had a brother, and his name was Laban: and Laban ran out unto the man, unto the well.

Now Rebekah had a brother named Laban, and he rushed out to the man at the spring.

Genesis 24:30

And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.

As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.

Genesis 24:42

And I came this day unto the well, and said, O LORD God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go;

So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!

Genesis 24:43

Behold, I stand by the well of water; and it shall come to pass, that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water, and I say to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water of thy pitcher to drink;

Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’

Genesis 24:45

And before I had done speaking in mine heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder; and she went down unto the well, and drew water: and I said unto her, Let me drink, I pray thee.

And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’

Genesis 26:19

And Isaac’s servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water.

Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.

Genesis 36:24

And these are the children of Zibeon; both Ajah, and Anah: this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)

Genesis 49:22

Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:

Joseph is a fruitful vine— a fruitful vine by a spring, whose branches scale the wall.

Exodus 15:27

And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the waters.

Leviticus 11:36

Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

Nevertheless, a spring or cistern containing water will remain clean, but one who touches a carcass in it will be unclean.

Numbers 21:17

Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!

Numbers 33:9

And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.

They set out from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.

Deuteronomy 4:49

And all the plain on this side Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah.

including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.

Deuteronomy 8:7

For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;

For the LORD your God is bringing you into a good land, a land of brooks and fountains and springs that flow through the valleys and hills;

Deuteronomy 11:14

That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season, the first rain and the latter rain, that thou mayest gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.

then I will provide rain for your land in season, the autumn and spring rains, that you may gather your grain, new wine, and oil.