Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 138
Spray (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.
Spray (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.
Spray (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.
Sprayboard (n.) See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).
Spread (imp. & p. p.) of Spread.
Spreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spread.
Spread (v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.
Spread (v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.
Spread (v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.
Spread (v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.
Spread (v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.
Spread (v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.
Spread (v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.
Spread (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.
Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.
Spread (v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.
Spread (v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.
Spread (n.) Extent; compass.
Spread (n.) Expansion of parts.
Spread (n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.
Spread (n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.
Spread (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.
Spread (n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Spread () imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.
Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
Spreader (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.
Spreadingly (adv.) Increasingly.
Sprechery (n.) Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.
Spree (n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.
Sprenge (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.
Sprengel pump () A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
Sprent () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
Sprew (n.) (Med.) Thrush. [Local, U. S.]
Spreynd () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.
Sprig (n.) 小樹枝 A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.
Sprig (n.) 【貶】小伙子 A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.
A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago. -- Sir W. Scott.
Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head.
Sprig (n.) (Naut.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.
Sprigged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprig.
Sprigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprig.
Sprig (v. t.) 用小樹枝裝飾；用釘子釘上 To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.
Compare: Sprigtail
Sprigtail (n.) (Zool.) (a) 長尾鳧；紅鴨 The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. [Local, U.S.]
Sprigtail (n.) (Zool.) (b) 尖尾松雞 The sharp-tailed grouse. [Local, U.S.]
Sprig (n.) A small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year [syn: branchlet, twig, sprig].
Sprig (n.) An ornament that resembles a spray of leaves or flowers.
Sprigged (a.) Having sprigs.
Spriggy (a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.
Spright (n.) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
Spright (n.) A kind of short arrow.
Spright (v. t.) To haunt, as a spright.
Sprightful (a.) Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.
Sprightless (a.) Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.
Sprightliness (n.) The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.
Sprightly (a.) Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." -- Dryden.
The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. -- Pope.
Sprightly (a.) Full of spirit and vitality; "a sprightly young girl"; "a sprightly dance."
Sprigtail (n.) The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.
Sprigtail (n.) The sharp-tailed grouse.
Sprang (imp.) of Spring.
Sprung () of Spring.
Sprung (p. p.) of Spring.
Springing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spring.
Spring (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.
The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. -- Philips.
Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. -- Dryden.
Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. -- Otway.
Spring (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
Spring (v. i.) 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.
Till well nigh the day began to spring. -- Chaucer.
To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. -- Job xxxviii. 27.
Do not blast my springing hopes. -- Rowe.
O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. -- Pope.
Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked. -- Milton.
Spring (v. i.) To grow; to prosper.
What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring? -- Dryden.
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.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant.
Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; as, to spring a surprise on someone; to spring a joke.
She starts, and leaves her bed, and springs a light. -- Dryden.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project. -- Swift.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.
Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.
Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.
Spring (v. t.) To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar.
Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.
Spring (v. t.) To release (a person) from confinement, especially from a prison. [colloquial]
To spring a butt (Naut.), To loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom.
To spring a leak (Naut.), To begin to leak.
To spring an arch (Arch.), To build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arch over a lintel.
To spring a rattle, To cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman.
To spring the luff (Naut.), To ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel. -- Mar. Dict.
To spring a mast or To spring a spar (Naut.), To strain it so that it is unserviceable.
Spring (n.) A leap; a bound; a jump.
The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. -- Dryden.
Spring (n.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.
Spring (n.) Elastic power or force.
Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! -- Dryden.
Spring (n.) An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force.
Note: The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms are the spiral spring (Fig. a), the coil spring (Fig. b), the elliptic spring (Fig. c), the half-elliptic spring (Fig. d), the volute spring, the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring, etc.
Spring (n.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." -- Ps. lxxxvii. 7. "A secret spring of spiritual joy." -- Bentley. "The sacred spring whence right and honor streams." -- Sir J. Davies.
Spring (n.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. -- Pope.
Spring (n.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as:
Spring (n.) A race; lineage. [Obs.] -- Chapman.
Spring (n.) A youth; a springal. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Spring (n.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Milton.
Spring (n.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.] -- Beau. & Fl.
Spring (n.) The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring." -- Shak.
Note: Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer solstice, about June 21st.
Spring (n.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage ; as, the spring of life. "The spring of the day." -- 1 Sam. ix. 26.
O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. -- Shak.
Spring (n.) (Naut.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.
Spring (n.) (Naut.) A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored.
Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air, Boiling, etc.
Spring back (Bookbinding), A back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat.
Spring balance, A contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel.
Spring beam, A beam that supports the side of a paddle box.
See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n.
Spring beauty. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime.
Spring beauty. (b) (Zool.) A small, elegant American butterfly ({Erora laeta) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue.
Spring bed, A mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity.
Spring beetle (Zool.), A snapping beetle; an elater.
Spring box, The box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of mechanism, in which the spring is contained.
Spring fly (Zool.), A caddice fly; -- so called because it appears in the spring.
Spring grass (Bot.), Vernal grass. See under Vernal.
Spring gun, A firearm discharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved.
Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), One of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame.
Spring latch, A latch that fastens with a spring.
Spring lock, A lock that fastens with a spring.
Spring mattress, A spring bed.
Spring of an arch (Arch.) See Springing line of an arch, under Springing.
Spring of pork, The lower part of a fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder. [Obs.] -- Nares.
Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. -- Gayton.
Spring pin (Locomotive Engines), An iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles.
Spring rye, A kind of rye sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn.
Spring stay (Naut.), A preventer stay, to assist the regular one. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Spring tide, The tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See Tide.
Spring wagon, A wagon in which springs are interposed between the body and the axles to form elastic supports.
Spring wheat, Any kind of wheat sown in the spring; -- in distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn. Springald; Springal
Spring (n.) The season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" [syn: spring, springtime].
Spring (n.) A metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken."
Spring (n.) A natural flow of ground water [syn: spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring].
Spring (n.) A point at which water issues forth.
Spring (n.) The elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length [syn: give, spring, springiness].
Spring (n.) A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce].
Spring (v.) Move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" [syn: jump, leap, bound, spring].
Spring (v.) Develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" [syn: form, take form, take shape, spring].
Spring (v.) Spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet].
Spring (v.) Develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak."
Spring (v.) Produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving."
Springal (n.) Alt. of Springall.
Springald (n.) Alt. of Springall.
Springall (n.) An active, springly young man. [Obs.] "There came two springals of full tender years." -- Spenser.
Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. -- Latimer.
Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
Springboard (n.) An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. Springbok
Springboard (n.) A flexible board for jumping upward.
Springboard (n.) A beginning from which an enterprise is launched; "he uses other people's ideas as a springboard for his own"; "reality provides the jumping-off point for his illusions"; "the point of departure of international comparison cannot be an institution but must be the function it carries out" [syn: springboard, jumping-off point, point of departure].
Springbok (n.) Alt. of Springbuck.
Springbuck (n.) (Zool.) A South African gazelle ({Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer. [Written also springboc, and springbock.]
Springbok (n.) A South African gazelle noted for springing lightly into the air [syn: springbok, springbuck, Antidorcas marsupialis, Antidorcas euchore].
Springe (v. i.) A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare.
As a woodcock to mine own springe. -- Shak.
Springe (v. t.) To catch in a springe; to insnare. [R.]
Springe (v. t.) To sprinkle; to
scatter. [Obs.]
He would sowen some difficulty, Or springen cockle in our cleane
corn. -- Chaucer.
Springer (n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.
Springer (n.) A young plant. [Obs.] -- Evelyn.