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Spring
King James Dictionary
or SPRING, pret. sprung, sprang, not wholly obsolete pp. sprung.
1. To vegetate and rise out of the ground to begin to appear as vegetables.
To satisfy the desolate ground, and cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job 38 .
2. To begin to grow.
The teeth of the young not sprung--
3. To proceed, as from the seed or cause.
Much more good of sin shall spring.
4. To arise to appear to begin to appear or exist.
When the day began to spring, they let her go. Judges 21
Do not blast my springing hopes.
5. To break forth to issue into sight or notice.
O spring to light auspicious babe, be born.
6. To issue or proceed, as from ancestors or from a country. Aaron and Moses sprung from Levi.
7. To proceed, as from a cause, reason, principle, or other original. The noblest title springs from virtue.
They found new hope to spring out of despair.
8. To grow to thrive.
What makes all this but Jupiter the king, at whose command we perish and we spring.
9. To proceed or issue, as from a fountain or source. Water springs from reservoirs in the earth. Rivers spring from lakes or ponds.
10. To leap to bound to jump.
The mountain stag that springs from highth to highth, and bounds along the plains--
11. To fly back to start as, a bow when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
12. To start or rise suddenly from a covert.
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring.
13. To shoot to issue with speed and violence.
And sudden light sprung through the vaulted roof--
14. To bend or wind from a straight direction or plane surface. Our mechanics say, a piece of timber or a plank springs in seasoning.
To spring at, to leap towards to attempt to reach by a leap.
To spring in, to rush in to enter with a leap or in haste.
To spring forth, to leap out to rush out.
To spring on or upon, to leap on to rush on with haste or violence to assault.
SPRING,
1. To start or rouse, as game to cause to rise from the earth or from a covert as, to spring a pheasant.
2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly.
The nurse, surprisd with fright, starts up and leaves her bed, and springs a light.
I have never heard such an expression.
3. To start to contrive or to produce or propose on a sudden to produce unexpectedly.
The friends to the cause sprang a new project.
In lieu of spring, the people int he United States generally use start to start a new project.
4. To cause to explode as, to spring a mine.
5. To burst to cause to open as, to spring a leak. When it is said, a vessel has sprung a leak, the meaning is, the leak has then commenced.
6. To crack as, to spring a mast or a yard.
7. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap as, to spring a trap.
To spring a butt, in seamens language, to loosen the end of a plank in a ships bottom.
To spring the luff, when a vessel yields to the helm, and sails nearer to the wind than before.
To spring a fence, for to leap a fence, is not a phrase used in this country.
To spring an arch, to set off, begin or commence an arch from an abutment or pier.
SPRING, n.
1. A leap a bound a jump as of an animal.
The prisner with a spring from prison broke.
2. A flying back the resilience of a body recovering its former state by its elasticity as the spring of a bow.
3. Elastic power or force. The soul or the mind requires relaxation, that it may recover its natural spring.
Heavns, what a spring was in his arm.
4. An elastic body a body which, when bent or forced from its natural state, has the power of recovering it as the spring of a watch or clock.
5. Any active power that by which action or motion is produced or propagated.
--Like nature letting down the springs of life.
Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move the heros glory--
6. A fountain of water an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Springs are temporary or perennial. From springs proceed rivulets, and rivulets united form rivers. Lakes and ponds are usually fed by springs.
7. The place where water usually issues from the earth, though no water is there. Thus we say, a spring is dry.
8. A source that from which supplies are drawn. The real Christian has in his own breast a perpetual and inexhaustible spring of joy.
The sacred spring whence right and honor stream.
9. Rise original as the spring of the day. 1 Samuel 9 .
10. Cause original. The springs of great events are often concealed from common observation.
11. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and rise the vernal season. This season comprehends the months of March, April and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator.
12. In seamens language, a crack in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. In the sense of leak, I believe it is not used.
13. A rope passed out of a ships stern and attached to a cable proceeding from her bow, when she is at anchor. It is intended to bring her broadside to bear upon some object. A spring is also a rope extending diagonally from the stern of one ship to the head of another, to make on ship sheer off to a greater distance.
14. A plant a shoot a young tree. Not in use.
15. A youth. Not in use.
16. A hand a shoulder of pork. Not in use.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Spring'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/s/spring.html.
