Spring

spring, v.i. to bound to leap to rush hastily to move suddenly by elastic force to start up suddenly to break forth to appear to i ue to come into existence (B.) to rise, as the sun —v.t to cause to spring up to start to produce quickly to contrive on a sudden to explode, as a mine to open, as a leak to crack, as a mast: —pa sprung, sprang; pa.p. sprung. — n. a leap a flying back with elastic force elastic power an elastic body any active power that by which action is produced cause or 01 igin a source an outflow of water from the earth the dawn the time when plants* begin to spring up and grow, the vernal season — March, April, May a starting of a plank in a ve el a crack in a mast. A. spring an Ger. springen Springbok, spring'bok, m. a sort of South African antelope, larger than a roebuck. [Out for spring-buck,' from ils leaping motion