sprig, sprigge

& a. [A. S. sprec =a spray, a twig (Somner); cogn. with Icel. sprek =astick; Low Ger. sprikka sprig, a twig; Dan. sprag =a spray.] [SPRAY (2).] A. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: *1. A rod for punishing children, a stick. ( Piers Plowman , vi. 139.) 2. A small shoot, branch, or twig of a tree; a spray. ( Thomson : Spring, 651.) 3. A representation of a sprig or spray; a small, isolated ornament of the nature of a branch, woven or printed on textile fabrics. 4. An offshoot, a scion, a slip, a youth; generally used in disparagement; as, a sprig of nobility. 5. A small brad. 6. A brad or triangular piece of tin plate to confine a pane of gla in a sash until the putty dries. II. Naut .: An eyebolt with a barbed shank. *B. As adj .: Smart, well-trimmed. "He wears his beard so sprig ." Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque , p. 234. sprig-bolt, s. [RAG-BOLT.] *sprig-crystal, s . (See extract.) "In perpendicular fi ures, crystal is found in form of an hexangular column, adhering at one end to the stone, and near the other le ening gradually, till it terminates in a point: this is called by lapidaries sprig or rock crystal."-Woodward. IMG:content-0099.png:[blocks in formation] Gla .: A heated chamber in which cracked cylinders of sheet-gla are laid in order to spread out into sheets.