To move or burst forth.
The boat sprang a leak and began to sink.
To cause to spring (all senses).
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;
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.
A surname.
A census-designated place in Harris County, Texas, United States.
Alternative form of spring, the season of warmth and new vegetation following winter.
From Middle English springen, from Old English springan (“to spring, leap, bounce, sprout forth, emerge, spread out”), from Proto-West Germanic *springan, from Proto-Germanic *springaną (“to burst for...
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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.
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...
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.