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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. moving quickly and lightly;
- Example: "sleek and agile as a gymnast"
- Example: "as nimble as a deer"
- Example: "nimble fingers"
- Example: "quick of foot"
- Example: "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it"
[syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spry \Spry\ (spr[imac]), a. [Compar. Sprier or Spryer
   (-[~e]r); superl. Spriest or Spryest.] [Cf. dial. Sw.
   sprygg lively, skittish, and E. sprag.]
   Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
   [U.S. & Local Eng.]
   [1913 Webster]

         She is as spry as a cricket.             --S. Judd
                                                  (Margaret).
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         If I'm not so large as you,
         You are not so small as I,
         And not half so spry.                    --Emerson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

spry
    adj 1: moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a
           gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick
           of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the
           stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble,
           quick, spry]