Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 139
Springer (n.) (Arch.) The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring.
Springer (n.) (Arch.) The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer.
Springer (n.) (Arch.) The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting.
Springer (n.) (Zool.) The grampus.
Springer (n.) (Zool.) A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel.
Springer (n.) (Zool.) A species of antelope; the sprinkbok.
Springer (n.) The lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs [syn: springer, impost].
Springer (n.) A cow about to give birth [syn: springer, springing cow].
Springer (n.) A large spaniel with wavy silky coat usually black or liver and white [syn: springer spaniel, springer].
Springer, NM -- U.S. town in New Mexico
Population (2000): 1285
Housing Units (2000): 605
Land area (2000): 1.465842 sq. miles (3.796514 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.465842 sq. miles (3.796514 sq. km)
FIPS code: 74800
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 36.363976 N, 104.593491 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 87747
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Springer, NM
Springer
Springer, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 577
Housing Units (2000): 267
Land area (2000): 14.448350 sq. miles (37.421053 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.068949 sq. miles (0.178578 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 14.517299 sq. miles (37.599631 sq. km)
FIPS code: 69500
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 34.304569 N, 97.136499 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73458
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Springer, OK
Springer
Springhalt (n.) (Far.) A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. -- Shak.
Stringhalt (n.) (Far.) An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock. [Written also springhalt.]
Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Springiness (n.) The state or quality of being springly.
Springing (n.) The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.
Springing (n.) Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.
Springle (n.) A springe.
Springlet (n.) A little spring.
Springtail (n.) Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.
Springtide (n.) The time of spring; springtime.
Springtime (n.) The season of spring; springtide.
Springy (a.) Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.
Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. -- Sir W. Scott.
Springy (a.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land.
Springy (a.) Elastic; rebounds readily; "clean bouncy hair"; "a lively tennis ball"; "as resilient as seasoned hickory"; "springy turf" [syn: bouncy, live, lively, resilient, springy].
Springy (a.) (Of movements) Light and confidently active; "he walked away with a springy step."
Sprinkled (imp. & p. p.) of Sprinkle.
Sprinkling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprinkle.
Sprinkle (v. t.) To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.
Sprinkle (v. t.) To scatter on; to disperse something over in small drops or particles; to besprinkle; as, to sprinkle the earth with water; to sprinkle a floor with sand.
Sprinkle (v. t.) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.
Having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. -- Heb. x. 22.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To scatter a liquid, or any fine substance, so that it may fall in particles.
And the priest shall . . . sprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord. -- Lev. xiv. 16.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To rain moderately, or with scattered drops falling now and then; as, it sprinkles.
Sprinkle (v. i.) To fly or be scattered in small drops or particles.
Sprinkle (n.) A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.
Sprinkle (n.) A utensil for sprinkling;
a sprinkler. [Obs.]
Sprinkle (n.) A light shower that falls in
some locations and not others nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle,
sprinkling].
Sprinkle (n.) The act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge].
Sprinkle (v.) Distribute loosely; "He scattered gun powder under the wagon" [syn: scatter, sprinkle, dot, dust, disperse].
Sprinkle (v.) Cause (a liquid) to spatter about, especially with force; "She splashed the water around her" [syn: sprinkle, splash, splosh].
Sprinkle (v.) Rain gently; "It has only sprinkled, but the roads are slick" [syn: sprinkle, spit, spatter, patter, pitter-patter].
Sprinkle (v.) Scatter with liquid; wet lightly; "Sprinkle the lawn" [syn: sprinkle, sparge, besprinkle].
Sprinkler (n.) 灑水車；灑水器；地下灌溉系統 One who sprinkles.
Sprinkler (n.) An instrument or vessel used in sprinkling; specifically, a watering pot.
Sprinkler (n.) Mechanical device that attaches to a garden hose for watering lawn or garden.
Sprinkling (n.) The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.
Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. -- Ayliffe.
Sprinkling (n.) A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow.
Sprinkling (n.) Hence, a moderate number or quantity distributed like drops. -- Craik.
Sprinkling (n.) A small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly; "the first scatterings of green"; "a sprinkling of grey at his temples" [syn: scattering, sprinkling].
Sprinkling (n.) A light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby [syn: scattering, sprinkle, sprinkling].
Sprinkling (n.) The act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) [syn: aspersion, sprinkling].
Sprinkling (n.) The act of sprinkling or splashing water; "baptized with a sprinkling of holy water"; "a sparge of warm water over the malt" [syn: sprinkle, sprinkling, sparge].
Sprinted (imp. & p. p.) of Sprint.
Sprinting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprint.
Sprint (v. i.) To run very rapidly; to run at full speed.
A runner [in a quarter-mile race] should be able to sprint the whole way. -- Encyc. Brit.
Sprint (n.) The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.
Sprint race, A foot race at the highest running speed; -- usually limited to distances under a quarter of a mile.
Sprint (n.) A quick run [syn: dash, sprint].
Sprint (v.) Run very fast, usually for a short distance.
SPRINT, () List processing language involving stack operations. "SPRINT -- A Direct Approach to List Processing Languages", C.A. Kapps, Proc SJCC 30 (1967). Sammet 1969, p 462.
Sprinter (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.
Sprinter (n.) Someone who runs a short distance at top speed.
Sprit (v. t.) To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Sprit (v. i.) To sprout; to bud; to germinate, as barley steeped for malt.
Sprit (n.) A shoot; a sprout. [Obs.] -- Mortimer.
Sprit (n.) (Naut.) A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.
Sprit (n.) A light spar that crosses a fore-and-aft sail diagonally.
Sprite (n.) A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.
Gaping graves received the wandering, guilty sprite. -- Dryden.
Sprite (n.) An elf; a fairy; a goblin.
Sprite (n.) (Zool.) The green woodpecker, or yaffle. Spriteliness; Spritefully; Spriteful
Sprite (n.) A small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite].
Sprite, () A small bitmap image, often used in animated games but also sometimes used as a synonym for icon.
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Sprite, () An operating system from Berkeley supporting multiprocessing and distributed files.
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Spriteful (a.) Alt. of Spritely.
Spritefully (adv.) Alt. of Spritely.
Spriteliness (n.) Alt. of Spritely.
Spritely (a.) See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.
Spritsail (n.) (Naut.) A sail extended by a sprit.
Spritsail (n.) (Naut.) A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.
Spritsail (n.) A fore-and-aft sail extended by a sprit.
Sprocket wheel () (Mach.) Same as Chain wheel.
Sprod (n.) (Zool.) A salmon in its second year. [Prov. Eng.]
Sprong () obs. imp. of Spring. Sprung.
Sprouted (imp. & p. p.) of Sprout.
Sprouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprout.
Sprout (v. i.) To shoot, as the seed of a plant; to germinate; to push out new shoots; hence, to grow like shoots of plants.
Sprout (v. i.) To shoot into ramifications . [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Sprout (v. t.) To cause to sprout; as, the rain will sprout the seed.
Sprout (v. t.) To deprive of sprouts; as, to sprout potatoes.
Sprout (n.) The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.
Sprout (n.) pl. Young coleworts; Brussels sprouts. -- Johnson.
Brussels sprouts (Bot.) See under Brussels.
Sprout (n.) Any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud.
Sprout (n.) A newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed).
Sprout (v.) Produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" [syn: shoot, spud, germinate, pullulate, bourgeon, burgeon forth, sprout].
Sprout (v.) Put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year" [syn: sprout, stock].
Spruce (n.) (Bot.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce ({Picea excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America ({Picea alba and Picea nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
Spruce (n.) The wood or timber of the spruce tree.
Spruce (n.) Prussia leather; pruce. [Obs.]
Spruce, () A sort of leather corruptly so called for Prussia leather. -- E. Phillips.
Douglas spruce (Bot.), A valuable timber tree ({Pseudotsuga Douglasii) of Northwestern America.
Essence of spruce, A thick, dark-colored, bitterish, and acidulous liquid made by evaporating a decoction of the young branches of spruce.
Hemlock spruce (Bot.), A graceful coniferous tree ({Tsuga Canadensis) of North America. Its timber is valuable, and the bark is largely used in tanning leather.
Spruce beer. [G. sprossenbier; sprosse sprout, shoot (akin to E. sprout, n.) + bier beer. The word was changed into spruce beer because the beer came from Prussia (OE. Spruce), or because it was made from the sprouts of the spruce. See Sprout, n., Beer, and cf. Spruce, n.] A kind of beer which is tinctured or flavored with spruce, either by means of the extract or by decoction.
Spruce grouse. (Zool.) Same as Spruce partridge, below.
Spruce leather. See Spruce, n., 3.
Spruce partridge (Zool.), A handsome American grouse ({Dendragapus Canadensis) found in Canada and the Northern United States; -- called also Canada grouse.
Spruce (a.) Neat, without elegance or dignity; -- formerly applied to things with a serious meaning; now chiefly applied to persons. "Neat and spruce array." -- Remedy of Love.
Spruce (a.) Sprightly; dashing. [Obs.] "Now, my spruce companions." -- Shak.
He is so spruce that he can never be genteel. -- Tatler.
Syn: Finical; neat; trim. See Finical. -- Spruce"ly, adv. -- Spruce"ness, n.
Spruced (imp. & p. p.) of Spruce.
Sprucing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spruce.
Spruce (v. t.) To dress with affected neatness; to trim; to make spruce ; -- often used with up; as, to spruce up the house for Company.
Spruce (v. i.) To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.
Spruce (a.) Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, spiffy, snappy, spruce].
Spruce (n.) Light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork.
Spruce (n.) Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea.
Spruce (v.) Make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" [syn: spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up].
Spruce (v.) Dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" [syn: spruce up, spruce, slick up, smarten up].
Sprue (n.) (Founding) Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold.
Sprue (n.) (Founding) The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.
Sprue (n.) (Med.) Same as Sprew.
Sprue (n.) A chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation [syn: sprue, tropical sprue, psilosis].
Sprug (v. t.) To make smart. [Obs.]
Sprung () imp. & p. p. of Spring.
Sprung (a.) (Naut.) Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.
Sprunt (v. i.) To spring up; to germinate; to spring forward or outward.
Sprunt (n.) Anything short and stiff.
Sprunt (n.) A leap; a spring.
Sprunt (n.) A steep ascent in a road.
Sprunt (a.) Active; lively; vigorous.
Spruntly (adv.) In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.
Spry (a.) Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active. [U.S. & Local Eng.]
She is as spry as a cricket. -- S. Judd (Margaret).
If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I, And not half so spry. -- Emerson.
Spry (a.) Moving quickly and lightly; "sleek and agile as a gymnast"; "as nimble as a deer"; "nimble fingers"; "quick of foot"; "the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it" [syn: agile, nimble, quick, spry].
Spud (n.) A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.
Spud (n.) A dagger.
Spud (n.) Anything short and thick; specifically, a piece of dough boiled in fat.
Spue (v. t. & i.) See Spew.
Spuilzie (n.) See Spulzie.
Spuke (n.) See Spook.
Spuller (n.) One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.
Spulzie (n.) Plunder, or booty.
Spume (n.) Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, or agitation; froth; foam; scum.
Spumed (imp. & p. p.) of Spume.
Spuming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spume.
Spume (v. i.) To froth; to foam.
Spumeous (a.) Spumous.
Spumescence (n.) The state of being foamy; frothiness.
Spumescent (a.) Resembling froth or foam; foaming.
Spumid (a.) Spumous; frothy.