springing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Spring \Spring\ (spr[i^]ng), v. i. [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.] [1913 Webster]

1.To leap; to bound; to jump. [1913 Webster]

The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains.— Philips.[1913 Webster]

2.To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. [1913 Webster]

And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. [1913 Webster]

Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.— Otway.[1913 Webster]

4.To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Till well nigh the day began to spring.— Chaucer.[1913 Webster]

To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.— Job xxxviii. 27.[1913 Webster]

Do not blast my springing hopes.— Rowe.[1913 Webster]

O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

7.To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. [1913 Webster]

[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.— Milton.[1913 Webster]

8.To grow; to thrive; to prosper. [1913 Webster]

What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring?— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Springing \Spring"ing\, n.

1.The act or process of one who, or that which, springs. [1913 Webster]

2.Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant. [1913 Webster]

Thou blessest the springing thereof.— Ps. lxv. 10.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]