spring

name

1. A surname.
2. A census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.
3. Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.

   “There the roſy-finger'd Spring, by the liquid mirror of a cryſtalline pool, was attiring her fair daughters in ſeven-fold ornaments, while the love-whiſpering breezes ſtole kiſſes as they paſſed, and fanned their glowing beauties.”

   “[T]he Regent’s park was full of winter chirruppings and sweet with Spring odours.”

noun

Etymology: From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lenten, lente, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

1. An act of springing: a leap, a jump.

   “The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke; Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his might, And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his flight.”

2. The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

   “Spring is the time of the year most species reproduce.”

   “You can visit me in the spring, when the weather is bearable.”

3. The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

   “Chinese New Year always occurs in January or February but is called the "Spring Festival" throughout East Asia because it is reckoned as the beginning of their spring.”

4. The season of the year in temperate regions in which temperatures and daylight hours rise, and plants spring from the ground and into bloom and dormant animals spring to life.

   “I spent my spring holidays in Morocco.”

   “The spring issue will be out next week.”

5. The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.

   “...and it came to passe about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the house...”

   “O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day.”

6. The time of something's growth; the early stages of some process.

   “Arab Spring”

   “Prague Spring”

7. Someone with ivory or peach skin tone and eyes and hair that are not extremely dark, seen as best suited to certain colors of clothing.
8. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly

   “This beer was brewed with pure spring water.”

9. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
10. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
11. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly

    “We jumped so hard the bed springs broke.”

12. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly

    “He had warped round with the springs on his cable, and had recommenced his fire upon the Aurora.”

13. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly

    “You should put a couple of springs onto the jetty to stop the boat moving so much.”

    “Spring is likewise a rope reaching diagonally from the stern of a ship to the head of another which lies along-side or a-breast of her.”

14. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
15. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
16. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
17. Something which springs, springs forth, springs up, or springs back, particularly
18. An erection of the penis.
19. A crack which has sprung up in a mast, spar, or (rare) a plank or seam.

    “A spar is said to be sprung, when it is cracked or split,... and the crack is called a spring.”

20. Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly

    “the spring of a bow”

21. Springiness: an attribute or quality of springing, springing up, or springing back, particularly

    “Heav'ns what a spring was in his Arm, to throw: How high he held his Shield, and rose at ev'ry blow!”

    “Mrs Durbeyfield, excited by her song, trod the rocker with all the spring that was left in her after a long day's seething in the suds.”

22. The source from which an action or supply of something springs.

    “As wel the singers as the players on instruments shall bee there: all my springs are in thee.”

    “Such a man can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth him, he can patiently suffer all things with cheerfull submission and resignation to the Divine Will. He has a secret Spring of spiritual Joy, and the continual Feast of a good Conscience within, that forbid him to be miserable.”

23. Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

    “Our Author ſhuns by vulgar Springs to move / The Hero's Glory, or the Virgin's Love; […]”

24. Something which causes others or another to spring forth or spring into action, particularly

    “The firstand spring the fiddle did play Hey wi the gay and the grinding Said, "Ye'll drown my sister, as she's dune me." At the bony bony bows of London”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English spryng (“a wellspring, tide, branch, sunrise, kind of dance or blow, ulcer, snare, flock”); partly from Old English spring (“wellspring, ulcer”), from Proto-West Germanic *spring, from Proto-Germanic *springaz (“a wellspring, fount”); and partly from Old English spryng (“a jump”), from Proto-West Germanic *sprungi, from Proto-Germanic *sprungiz (“a jump”). Further senses derived from the verb and from clippings of day-spring, springtime, spring tide, etc. Its sense as the season, first attested in a work predating 1325, gradually replaced Middle English lenten, lente, from Old English lencten (“spring, Lent”) as that word became more specifically liturgical. Compare fall.

1. To spend the springtime somewhere.

   “True it is that, owing to the migratory propensities of our countrymen, every third man has wintered at Naples, springed at Vienna, summered in Switzerland, and autumned on the banks of the Lago Maggiore;”

   “If Tad’s father and Tad had wintered, springed, summered, and autumned together for an hundred years instead of fifteen they could[…]”