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   Spring , v. i. [imp. Sprang  or Sprung ; p. p. Sprung; p. pr. & vb. n. Springing.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. σπέρχεσθαι to hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle.]
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   To leap; to bound; to jump.
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   The mountain stag that springs
   From height to height, and bounds along the plains.
   Philips.
   
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   To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
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   And sudden light
   Sprung through the vaulted roof.
   Dryden.
   
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   To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
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   Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
   Otway.
   
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   To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
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   To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.
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   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.
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   Till well nigh the day began to spring.
   Chaucer.
   
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   To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth.
   Job xxxviii. 27.
   
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   Do not blast my springing hopes.
   Rowe.
   
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   O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born.
   Pope.
   
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   To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.
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   [They found] new hope to spring
   Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked.
   Milton.
   
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   To grow; to thrive; to prosper.
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   What makes all this, but Jupiter the king,
   At whose command we perish, and we spring?
   Dryden.
   
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   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.
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   Springing, n.
   The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.
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   Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.
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   Thou blessest the springing thereof.
   Ps. lxv. 10.
   
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   Springing line of an arch (Arch.), the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also spring of an arch.
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