sprightly (spritli)

[Prop. spritely, but sprightly is the common spelling, the literal meaning and therefore the proper form of the word being lost from view; As I slept, me thought Great Iupiter, vpon his Eagle back'd, Appear'd to me, with other sprightly shewes. Shak ., Cymbeline (folio 1623), v. 5. 428. 2. Full of spirit or vigor; brisk; lively; vivacious; animated; spirited; gay. I am glad you are so sprightly. You fought bravely. Beau. and Fl., Knight of Malta, ii. 1. Let me tell you, that sprightly grace and insinuating manner of yours will do some mischief among the girls here. Sheridan, The Rivals, ii. 1. =Syn. 2. See animation . sprightlyt (sprit'li), adv. [Prop. spritely; sprigtail (sprig'tāl), n. 1. The pintail or sprig, a duck, Dafila acuta. See cut under Dafila. 2. The sharp-tailed or pin-tailed grouse, Pedia cetes phasianellus columbia nus: more fully sprig tailed grouse. See cut under Pediœcetes. sprig-tailed (sprig'tald), a. Having a sprigged or sharp-pointed tail, as a bird; pin-tailed: as, the sprig - tailed duck, Dafila acuta. spring (spring), v.; pret. sprang or sprung, pp. sprung, springing. dial. sprink; ME. springen, spryngen (pret. sprang, sprong, pl. sprungen, sprongen, pp. sprungen, sprongen, sprunge ), sprane, pl. sprung on, pp. sprungen), OS. spring an = OFries. spring a = = ), spring, D. springen = MLG. springen = OHG. spring an, MHG. G. springen, spring, = Icel. spring a = Sw. spring a =Dan. springe, spring, run, burst, split, = Goth. spriggan (not recorded); cf. OF. espringuier, etc., spring, dance, = It. spring are, kick about ( spring Whan Gonnore this saugh, she spronge for ioye. Merlin (E. E. T. Š.), ii. 210. They would often spring , and bound, and leap, with prodigious agility. Swift , Gulliver's Travels, iv. 1. 2. To move with leaps; bound along; rush. Than spronge forth Gawein and his companye a-monge the forreyours, that many were there slain and wounded. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 587. The horses, springing from under the whip of the charioteer, soon bore us from the great entrance of the palace into the midst of the throng that crowded the streets. W. Ware, Zenobia, I. 58. Specifically-3. To start up; rise suddenly, as a bird from a covert. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. Otway, Venice Preserved, i. 1. 4. To be impelled with speed or violence; shoot; fly; dart. And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. Dryden. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. The blood sprang to her face. Out sprang his bright steel at that latest word. William Morris , Earthly Paradise, II. 285. 5. To start, recoil, fly back, etc., as from a forced position; escape from constraint; give; relax; especially, to yield to natural elasticity or to the force of a spring. See spring , n., 9. Thor [Jacob] wrestelede an engel with, Senwe [sinew] sprungen fro the lith [limb]. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1804. No sooner are your appliances withdrawn than the strange casket of a heart springs to again. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, ii. 6. 6. To be shivered or shattered; split; crack. Whene his spere was sprongene , he spede hym fulle gerne, Swappede owtte with a swerde, that swykede hym never, Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 1794. East and Tom were chatting together in whispers by the light of the fire, and splicing a favourite old fives bat which had sprung. T. Hughes , Tom Brown at Rugby, i. 9. 7. To come into being; begin to grow; shoot up; come up; arise; specifically, of the day, to dawn: said of any kind of genesis or begin ning, and often followed by up. The derke was done & the day sprange. Hadst thou sway'd as kings should do,... Giving no ground unto the house of York, They never then had sprung like summer flies. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1076. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., ii. 6. 17. In the night, when the Land winds came, they anchored, and lay still till about 10 or 11 a Clock the next day, at which time the Sea-breeze usually sprang up again, and enabled them to continue their Course. Dampier , Voyages, II. i. 106. Alone the sun arises, and alone Spring the great streams. M. Arnold, In Utrumque Paratus. 8. To take one's birth, rise, or origin (from or out of any one or any thing); be derived; proceed, as from a specified source, stock, or set of conditions. This folc, sprungen of Israel, Is vnder God timed wel. Genesis and Exodus (E. E. T. S.), 1. 4023. Shak ., R. and J., i. 5. 140. My only love sprung from my only hate! 9t. To come into view or notice; be spread by popular report; gain fame or prevalence. Thus withinne a whyle his name is spronge Bothe of his dedes and his goode tonge. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 579. The word shal springen of him into Coloyne. Flemish Insurrection (Child's Ballads, VI. 271). 10. To rise above a given level; have a relatively great elevation; tower. Up from their midst springs the village spire,. With the crest of its cock in the sun afire. Whittier , Prophecy of Samuel Sewall. Above this springs the roof, semicircular in general section, but somewhat stilted at the sides, so as to make its height greater than the semi-diameter. J. Fergu on, Hist. Indian Arch., p. 119. 11. To warp, or become warped; bend or wind from a straight line or plane surface, as a piece of timber or plank in seasoning. The battens are more likely to spring fairly than when the curves are nearly straight. The arle , Naval Arch., § 21. II. trans. 1. To cause to leap or dart; urge or launch at full speed. So they spede at the spoures, they sprangene theire horses, Hyres theme hakenayes hastyly there aftyre. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), 1. 483. 5863 I spring my thoughts into this immense field. J. Hervey, Meditations, II. 129. 2. To start or rouse, as game; cause to rise from the earth or from a covert; flush: as, to spring a pheasant. The men sprange the birdes out of the bu hes, and the haukes sorynge ouer them bete them doune, so that the men mought easily take them. Sir T. Elyot, The Govern our, i. 18. Here's the master fool, and a covey of coxcombs; one wise man, I think, would spring you all. Greene, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay. 3. To bring out hastily or unexpectedly; produce suddenly; bring, show, contrive, etc., with unexpected promptne , or as a surprise. I may perhaps spring a wife for you anon. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. Surprised with fright, She starts and leaves her bed, and springs a light. Dryden , tr. of Ovid's Meta morph., x. 153. The friends to the cause sprang a new project. Swift , It's a feast at a poor country labourer's place when he springs sixpenn'orth of fresh herrings. Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 53. 4. To jump over; overleap. Far be the spirit of the chase from them [women]! Uncomely courage, unbeseeming skill; To spring the fence, to rein the prancing steed. Thomson, Autumn, 1. 575. spring 2. The act or time of springing or appearing; the first appearance; the beginning; birth; rise; origin: as, the spring of mankind; the spring of the year; the spring of the morning or of the day (see dayspring ). [Archaic except as in def. 3 and its figurative use.] Men, if we view them in their spring , are at the first without understanding or knowledge at all. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 6. This river taketh spring out of a certain lake eastward. B. Jonson, Masque of Blackne . Fortune. So great odds there is between the Spring and Fall of Baker , Chronicles, p. 126. At morning spring and even-fall Sweet voices in the still air singing. Whittier, Mogg Megone, ii. Specifically-3. The first of the four seasons of the year; the season in which plants begin to vegetate and rise; the vernal season (see season); hence, figuratively, the first and freshest period of any time or condition. Rough winter spent, The pleasant spring straight draweth in ure. Surrey, The Louer Comfort eth Himself. My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blo om shew'th. generate. Two well is there be the, I telle thee, That sprynggythe oyle, there men may see. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 142. Their indulgence must not spring in me A fond opinion that he cannot err. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 1. 6t. To scatter as in sowing; strew about; shed here and there; sprinkle (a liquid). Before theise Ydoles men sleen here Children many tymes, and spryngen the Blood upon the Ydoles; and so the i maken here Sacrifise. Mandeville , Travels, p. 170. 7. To sprinkle, as with fine drops, particles, or spots; especially, to moisten with drops of a liquid: as, to spring clothes. [Now only prov. Eng.] With holi water thou schalt me springe , And as the snowe I schal be whyt. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 253. 8. To shiver; split; crack: as, to spring a bat; the mast was sprung . Our shippes [were] in very good plight, more then that the Mary Rose, by some mischance, either sprang or spent her fore-yarde. Hakluyt's Voyages , I. 609. 9. To cause to burst or explode; discharge. I sprung a mine, whereby the whole nest was overthrown. Add is on, Spectator. 10. To shift out of place; relax; loosen. The linch-pins of the wagon are probably lost, and the tire of the wheels sprung . H. B. Stowe , Oldtown, p. 178. Specifically-11. To relax the spring of; cause to act suddenly by means of a spring; touch off, as by a trigger: as, to spring a trap; to spring a rattle; also figuratively: as, to spring a plot or a joke. He shall weave his snares, And spring them on thy carele steps. Bryant, Antiquity of Freedom. 12. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong.-13. To insert, as a beam in a place too short for it, by bending it so as to bring the ends nearer together, and allowing it to straighten when in place: usually with in: as, to spring in a slat or bar.-14. In arch., to commence from an abutment or pier: as, to spring an arch.-15. Naut., to haul by means of springs or cables: as, to spring the stern of a ve el around.16. In carp., to unite (the boards of a roof) with bevel-joints in order to keep out wet. - To spring a butt ( naut.). See butt2. - To spring a leak. See leak. To spring her luff (naut.). See luf2. spring (spring), n. and a. [ sprunc, G. spring, a spring of water (cf. sprung, a leap), = Sw. Dan. spring, a leap, run, spring (cf. Sw. språng, a leap, bound, water-spring); from the verb: see spring, v.] I. n. 1. The act of springing or leaping. (a) A leaping or darting; a vau it; a bound. The Indian immediately started back, whilst the lion rose with a spring , and leaped towards him. Add is on , Spectator, No. 56. (b) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity. The bow well bent, and smart the spring . Milton , Sonnets, ii. 4. That which springs or shoots up. (at) A Spring is and plantes, any spryg that growt out of any tree. Arnold's Chron., p. 168. This canker that eats up Love's tender spring . Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 656. (b) A young wood; any piece of woodland; a grove; a shrubbery. [Obsolete or prov. Eng.] When the spring is of two years' growth, draw part of it for quick-sets. Evelyn, Sylva, III. viii. § 23. IMG:content-1847.png:[blocks in formation] Who on all the human spring conferred confusion. Chapman. ( Imp. Dict.) 7. Water rising to the surface of the earth from below, and either flowing away in the form of a small stream or standing as a pool or small lake. Rivers are chiefly fed, both before and after being joined by their various affluents, by underground springs, and some pools of water large enough to be called ponds or even lakes are supplied in the same way. The conditions under which springs are formed are exceedingly variable, at once as regards the quantity of water, its temperature, the amount and nature of the gaseous and solid substances which it holds in solution, and the manner in which it is delivered at the surface; hence springs are variously designated in accordance with these peculiarities, the most familiar terms used for this purpose being shal low, simple, common, or surface; hot, boiling, thermal; mineral, medicinal; and spouting, or geyser, as this kind of spring is more generally called. Shallow or surface springs ordinarily furnish water which is pretty nearly pure, can be used for drinking, and does not differ much in temperature from the mean of the locality where they occur. They are due to the fact that the water falling on the surface in the form of rain, or furnished by melting snow, sinks to a certain depth (according as the soil and underlying rocks are more or le porous or permeable), where it is held in greater or le quantity according to the amount of rainfall and the thickne and relative position of the various permeable and impermeable formations with which it is brought in contact, but seeks under the influence of gravitation to escape, and makes its appearance at the surface when the topographical or geological conditions are favorable. Thus, a bed of gravel or sand resting on a ma of clay (the former being very permeable, latter almost impermeable) will become saturated with water below a certain depth, the distance from the surface of the saturated sand or gravel, or the line of saturation, as it is called, varying with the climate and season. If, however, there be an adjacent ravine or valley which is cut deep enough to expose the line of junction of the permeable and impermeable formations, the water will escape along this line in greater or le quant i ty, giving rise to springs, which will vary in number and copiousne with the varying conditions which present themselves. The water of such springs, not having descended to any great depth, will not vary much in temperature from the mean of the locality. Very different are the conditions in the case of thermal or hot springs, which may have any temperature up to boiling, and of which the water may have been heated either by coming from great depths or by contact with volcanic rocks; hence thermal springs are phenomena very characteristic of volcanic and geologically disturbed or faulted regions, and those hot springs which are of the geyser type (see geyser ) are most interesting from the scenic point of view. The medicinal properties and curative effects of various hot springs are of great practical importance; and many such springs, in Europe and the United States, are places much resorted to by invalids and pleasure-seekers. The variety of constituents, both solid and gaseous, held in solution by different hot springs is very great. From spring fied, and without regard to temperature, because the nature and quantity of the substances which the water contains are not by any means entirely dependent on temperature, although in general the hotter water the larger 5864 A rope extending from some part of a ship to another ship, or to a fixed object, to cant or move the ship by being hauled upon.-14. A Scotch.] while a high temperature is undoubtedly in many cases an important element in the therapeutic effect produced. A convenient cla ification of mineral waters, from the medicinal point of view, is into ( a ) indifferent, (b) eartt y, (c) sulphurous, ( d ) saline, ( e ) alkaline, (f) purgative, ( 9 ) chalybeate. Indifferent waters are such as contain but a small amount of foreign matter-often so little, indeed, that they might well be cla ed as potable, but they are usually thermal. Their mode of therapeutic action is not well understood, and by some the imagination is thought to play an important part as a curative agency. Examples of well-known and much-visited springs of this cla are Schlangenbad in Na au; Gastein in Salzburg; Teplitz in Bohemia; Plombières in France; Lebanon, New York; Hot Springs, Bath Court House, Virginia; Clarendon Springs, Vermont; Hot Springs, Arkansas, etc. Earthy waters contain a large amount of mineral matter in solution, calcium sulphate predominating in quantity. Examples: Leuk, Switzerland; Bagnères-de-Bigorre, France; Bath, England; Sweet Springs and Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. Sulphurous waters are weak solutions of alkaline sulphurets, the mineral constituents ranging from a few grains to a hundred or more in the gallon, and the sulphur from a trace to 4 parts in 10,000; some are cold, others hot. Examples: many of the most frequented springs of the Pyrenees, as Cauterets, Eaux-Bonnes, Eaux Chaudes, Bagnères-de-Luchon; Aix-la-Chapelle, Pru ia; Harrogate, England; White Sulphur, West Virginia; and many others. Saline springs: these are very numerous, both hot and cold, common salt being the predominating ingredient; but besides this there are usually present salts of lime, magnesia, soda, iron, iodine, and bromine. Examples: Ki in gen, Bavaria; Wiesbaden, Baden-Baden, Niederselters, in Germany; St. Cat he rines, Canada; Saratoga, New York. Alkaline waters: these contain salts of soda, potash, lime, and magnesia; also, more or le commonly, lithia, strontia, and traces of iodine, bromine, fluorin, and arsenic. Examples: Vichy in France; Bilin in Bohemia; Heilbrunn, Ems, in Germany. Purgative waters, containing especially the sulphate of magnesia, and also of soda, often in large quantity, as in the case of the Püllna water, which has 1,986 grains to the gallon, mostly sodium and magnesium sulphates. Examples: Sedlitz, Carlsbad, and Püllna, Bohe mia; Cheltenham and Scar borough, England. Chalybeate waters, in which salts of iron are the e ential ingredient. Examples: Schwalbach, Na au; Spa, Belgium; Pyrmont, Germany. 8. Figuratively, any fount or source of supply. Mach. The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood Is stopp'd; the very source of it is stopp'd. Maed . Your royal father 's murder'd. We will meet him, Shall make him scorn an empire. And strike him such new springs , and such free welcomes, Fletcher (and another ?), Prophete , v. 2. Last night I play'd "O'er Bogie" was the spring . Ramsay, Gentle Shepherd, i. 1. 15. In falconry, a collection of teal. A spring of teels. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 97. Presently surprising a spring of teal. Daily Telegraph , Dec. 26, 1885. (Encyc. Dict .) Atmospheric, bituminous, boiling, caballine spring. See the adjectives. - Backlash-spring. See backlash . C spring. See C- spring . - Carbonated springs. See car- bonate.- Compound spring, a spring in which springs of different types are combined. - Intermittent or inter mitting spring. See intermittent. Platform-spring, a form of spring used for heavy vehicles, consisting of four semi-elliptical steel springs arranged as a sort of re in which air is confined and made by its elasticity to perform the functions of a spring. It may be a simple air-bag or a cylinder with a close-fitting piston, etc. Also called air-spring, air-cushion. - Spiral spring, a coiled spring used chiefly where the pre ure to be resisted is direct and in line with the axis of the spring. See cut under oiler. Spring of a beam or of a deck, the curve of a beam or deck upward from a horizontal line. - Spring of pork, the lower part of the fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg without the shoulder. =Syn. 7. Fountain, etc. See well i. II. a . Pertaining to, suitable for, or occurring or used in the spring of the year: as, spring fashions; spring wheat.- Spring canker-worm. See canker - worm . - Spring cre , an American bitter cre , Cardamine rhomboidea , common in wet places, bearing white flowers in early spring. - Spring crocus, an colored flowers, perhaps the most common garden speearly crocus, Crocus vernus, having blue, white, or party cies. - Spring fare, the first fare of fish taken any year. Fishermen make about two fares of cod in a year, and the first or spring fare, which commences early in April, is of a superior quality. [New England.) - Spring fever. See fever1.- Spring grinder. See grinder.- Spring lobster. See lobster, 2.-Spring mackerel. See macker ell.-Spring safety-valve. See safety -valve.-Spring springe the fall, or afford return motion.-4. In a railroad-car, one of two heavy timbers resting on the springs of a six-wheel car-truck, and serving to support the bolster-bridges, which, through the bolster, support the car-body.5. In carp., the tie-beam of a tru .