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What makes all this but Jupiter the king, 
At whose command we perish and we spring : 
Then ’tis our best, since thus ordain’d to die. 
To make a virtue of necessity. Dryden. 
To bound ; to leap ; to jump; to rush hastily ; to appear 
suddenly.—I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was 
a man child, than now in first seeing he had proved himself 
a man. Shakspeare. 
The mountain stag, that springs 
From height to height, and bounds along the plains, 
Nor has a master to restrain his course; 
That mountain stag would Vanoe rather be. 
Than be a slave. Philips. 
To fly with elastic power; to start.—A link of horsehair, 
that will easily slip, fasten to the end of the stick that 
springs. Mortimer. —To rise from a covert. 
My doors are hateful to my eyes. 
Fill’d and damn’d up with gaping creditors, 
Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. Otway. 
To issuefrom a fountain. ■ 
Let the wide world his praises sing, 
Where Tagus and Euphrates spring ; 
And from the Danube’s frosty banks to those 
Wherefrom an unknown head great Nilus flows. 
Roscommon. 
To proceed as from a source. 
’Tis true from force the noblest title springs, 
I therefore hold from that which first made kings. Dry den. 
To shoot; to issue with speed and violence. 
Then shook the sacred shrine, and sudden light 
Sprung through the vaulted roof, and made the temple bright; 
The power, behold ! the pow’r in glory shone. 
By her bent bow and her keen arrows known. Dry den. 
To SPRING, v. a. To start; to rouse game.—Here I 
use a great deal of diligence before I can spring any thing ; 
whereas in town, whilst I am following one character, I am 
crossed by another, that they puzzle the chase. Addison .— 
To produce quickly or unexpectedly. 
The nurse, surpriz’d with fright, 
Starts up, and leaves her bed, and springs a light. Dryden. 
The pris’ner with a spring from prison broke: 
Then stretch’d his feather’d fans with all his might, 
And to the neighbouring maple wing’d his flight. Dryden. 
A leak ; a start of plank. 
Each petty hand 
Can steer a ship becalm’d ; but he that will 
Govern, and carry her to her ends, must know 
His tides, his currents: how to shift his sails, 
Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to stop ’em. 
B. Jonson. 
A fountain; an issue of water from the earth. 
Now stop thy springs ; my sea shall suck them dry, 
And swell so much the higher by their ebb. Shakspeare. 
A source; that by which any thing is supplied.—He has 
a secret spring of spiritual joy, and the continual feast of a 
good conscience within, that forbids him to be miserable. 
Bentley. —Rise; beginning.—About the spring- of the day 
Samuel called Saul to the top of the house. 1 Sam .— 
Cause; original.—The first springs of great events, like 
those of great rivers, are often mean and little. Swift. —A 
plant; a shoot; a young tree; a coppice 
The nightingale, among the thick-leav’d springs 
That sits alone in sorrow. Fletcher. 
A youth. See Springal. 
She pictur’d winged Love, 
With his young brother Sport:— 
The one his bow and shafts, the other spring 
A burning tead about his head did move. Spenser. 
A hand or shoulder of pork.—These springs of pork. 
Beaum and FI. 
SPRING, a township of the United States, in Centre 
county, Pennsylvania. Population 1550. 
SPRING BAY, a bay on the north-east coast of the island 
of Barbadoes. 
SPRI'NGAL, s. [from the Sax. pppingan, germinare, 
and was also written spring, It may be added, that the 
old French word espringaller meant to leap, to bound.] 
A youth ; an active, nimble, young man.'—Yonge springals 
in the flower of their youth. Mat-tin. 
I do not rail against the hopeful springal. 
That builds up monuments in brass. Beaum. and Ft. 
To make by starling, applied to a ship.—People discharge 
themselves of burdensome reflections, as of the cargo of a 
ship that has sprung a leak. L'Estrange. —To discharge, 
applied to a mine.—Our miners discovered several of the 
enemies’ mines, who have sprung divers others which did 
little execution. Tatler. —To contrive on a sudden ; to 
produce hastily ; to offer unexpectedly.—The friends to the 
cause sprang a new project, and it was advertized that the 
crisis could not appear till the ladies had shown their zeal 
against the pretender. Swift —To pass by leaping. 
Unbeseeming skill 
To spring the fence, to rein the prancing steed. Thomson. 
SPRING, s. [j’pjnnj. Sax.] The season in which plants 
rise and vegetate; the vernal season. 
Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness come, 
And from the bosom of yon dropping cloud 
Upon our plains descend. Thomson. 
An elastic body; a body which when distorted has the 
power of restoring itself to its former state.—He that was 
sharp-sighted enough to see the configuration of the minute, 
particles of the spring of a clock, and upon what peculiar 
impulse its elastic motion depends, would no doubt discover 
something very admirable. Locke. —Elastic force. 
Heav'ns, what a spring was in his arm, to throw! 
How high he held his shield, and rose at ev’ry blow! 
Dryden. 
Any active power.—Our author shuns by vulgar springs. 
to move. Pope. —A leap; a bound; a jump; a violent 
■effort; a sudden struggle. 
Va, XXIII. No. 1586. 
SPRINGE, s. A gin; a noose, which, fastened to any 
elastic body, catches by a spring or jerk. 
With hairy springes we the birds betray, 
Slight lines of hair surprize the finny prey. Pope. 
To SPRINGE, v. a. To ensnare; to catch in a trap.— 
We springe ourselves, we sink in our own bogs. Beaum. 
and FI. 
SPRINGE, a town of Hanover; 14 miles south-west of 
Hanover, and 10 north-east of Hameln. Population 1400. 
SPRINGEN, a town of the west of Germany in Wirtern- 
bergh, on the Brenz, near Aalen. Population 1000. 
SPRI'NGER, s. One who rouses game ; a young plant. 
—The young men and maidens go out into the woods and 
coppices, cut down and spoil young springers to dress up 
their May-booths. Evelyn. 
SPRINGFIELD, a viliage of Scotland, in Dumfries-sbire, 
in the parish of Graitney, begun in 1791, on the estate of 
Sir William Maxwell of Springkell. It is regularly built, 
with fine b:oad streets, and brick houses covered with blue 
slate. It is situated on a dry healthy soil, on the banks ot 
the river Sark, on building leases of 99 years. In 1793 it 
consisted of 40 houses; and since that time it has greatly in¬ 
creased, owing to the many advantages which it possesses 
v/ith respect to its situation. Both coal and lime are plentiful 
at a small distance. The river Sark is well adapted for the 
erection of machinery; and die sea-port town of Sarkfoot is 
not above a mile distant. Add to these, the two great roads 
from England to the west of Scotland pass thro ugh it. 
SPRINGFIELD, a parish of England, in Essex; 1 mile 
north-east of Chelmsford. Population 1201. 
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