1.
[syn: branchlet, twig, sprig]
2. an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sprig \Sprig\ (spr[i^]g), n. [AS. sprec; akin to Icel. sprek a
stick. Cf. Spray a branch.]
1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray;
as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
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2. A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight
disparagement.
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A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a
satchel, not so many years ago. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. A brad, or nail without a head.
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4. (Naut.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sprig \Sprig\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sprigged (spr[i^]gd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Sprigging (-g[i^]ng).]
To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches;
to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sprigtail \Sprig"tail`\ (spr[i^]g"t[=a]l`), n. (Zool.)
(a) The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and
spreet-tail. [Local, U.S.]
(b) The sharp-tailed grouse. [Local, U.S.]
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sprig
n 1: a small branch or division of a branch (especially a
terminal division); usually applied to branches of the
current or preceding year [syn: branchlet, twig,
sprig]
2: an ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "sprig":
adolescent, appendage, arm, baby, bine, bough, branch,
branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, deadwood, flagellum, fledgling,
fork, frond, hand, hopeful, imp, infant, joint, junior, juvenal,
juvenile, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, minor, offshoot,
organ, pinion, pubescent, ramage, ramification, runner, sapling,
sarment, scion, seedling, set, shoot, slip, spear, spray, sprit,
sprout, spur, stolon, stripling, sucker, switch, tail, teenager,
teener, teenybopper, tendril, thallus, twig, wing, young hopeful,
young person, younger, youngest, youngling, youngster, youth