| Sprengel, Otto | <person> German surgeon, 1852-1915. See: Sprengel's deformity. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sprent | Of Sprenge. Sprinkled. "All the ground with purple blood was sprent." (Spenser) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sprew | <medicine> Thrush. Origin: Cf. D. Sprouw, spruw. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sprig | 1. A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley. 2. A youth; a lad; used humorously or in slight disparagement. "A sprig whom I remember, with a whey-face and a satchel, not so many years ago." (Sir W. Scott) 3. A brad, or nail without a head. 4. A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point. Origin: AS. Sprec; akin to Icel. Sprek a stick. Cf. Spray a branch. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sprigtail | <zoology> The pintail duck; called also sprig, and spreet-tail. The sharp-tailed grouse. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spring | 1. To leap; to bound; to jump. "The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains." (Philips) 2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. "And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof." (Dryden) 3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. "Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring." (Otway) 4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. 5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. 6. 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. "Till well nigh the day began to spring." (Chaucer) "To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth." (Job xxxviii. 27) "Do not blast my springing hopes." (Rowe) "O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born." (Pope) 7. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. "[They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked." (Milton) 8. To grow; to prosper. "What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, at whose command we perish, and we spring?" (Dryden) 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 upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault. Origin: AS. Springan; akin to D. & G. Springen, OS. & OHG. Springan, Icel. & Sw. Springa, Dan. Springe; cf. Gr. To hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle. 1. To cause to spring up; 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 or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. "She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light." (Dryden) "The friends to the cause sprang a new project." (Swift) 3. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine. 4. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard. 5. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap. 6. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar. 7. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence. To spring a butt, to strain it so that it is unserviceable. 1. A leap; a bound; a jump. "The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke." (Dryden) 2. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow. 3. Elastic power or force. "Heavens! what a spring was in his arm!" (Dryden) 4. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. The principal varieties of springs used in mechanisms are the spiral spring (Fig. A), the coil spring (Fig. B), the elliptic spring (Fig. C), the half-elliptic spring (Fig. D), the volute spring, the India-rubber spring, the atmospheric spring, etc. 5. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." "A secret spring of spiritual joy." "The sacred spring whence and honor streams." 6. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. "Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love." (Pope) 7. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as: A race; lineage. A youth; a springal. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. 8. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. 9. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring." Spring of the astronomical year begins with the vernal equinox, about March 21st, and ends with the summer solstice, about June 21st. 10. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. "The spring of the day." "O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day." (Shak) 11. A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored. Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See Air, Boiling, etc. Spring back, a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel. Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box. See Paddle beam, under Paddle, Spring beauty. <botany> See Springing line of an arch, under Springing. Spring of pork, the lower part of a fore quarter, which is divided from the neck, and has the leg and foot without the shoulder. "Sir, pray hand the spring of pork to me. <engineering>" (Gayton) Spring pin, an iron rod fitted between the springs and the axle boxes, to sustain and regulate the pressure on the axles. Spring rye, a kind of rye sown in the spring; in distinction from winter rye, sown in autumn. Spring stay, a preventer stay, to assist the regular one. Spring tide, the tide which happens at, or soon after, the new and the full moon, and which rises higher than common tides. See Tide. Spring wagon, a wagon in which springs are interposed between the body and the axles to form elastic supports. Spring wheat, any kind of wheat sown in the spring; in distinction from winter wheat, which is sown in autumn. Origin: AS. Spring a fountain, a leap. See Spring. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spring conjunctivitis | A chronic, bilateral conjunctival inflammation with photophobia and intense itching that recurs seasonally during warm weather; characterised in the palpebral form by cobblestone papillae in the upper palpebral conjunctiva and in the bulbar form by gelatinous nodules adjacent to the corneoscleral limbus. Synonym: allergic conjunctivitis, spring conjunctivitis, spring ophthalmia, vernal catarrh, vernal keratoconjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spring finger | An affection in which the movement of the finger is arrested for a moment in flexion or extension and then continues with a jerk. Synonym: jerk finger, lock finger, snap finger, spring finger, stuck finger. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spring lancet | A lancet with a handle containing a blade that is activated by a spring. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spring ligament | <anatomy> A dense fibroelastic ligament that extends from the sustentaculum tali to the plantar surface of the navicular bone; it supports the head of the talus. Synonym: ligamentum calcaneonaviculare plantare, inferior calcaneonavicular ligament, spring ligament. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spring ophthalmia | A chronic, bilateral conjunctival inflammation with photophobia and intense itching that recurs seasonally during warm weather; characterised in the palpebral form by cobblestone papillae in the upper palpebral conjunctiva and in the bulbar form by gelatinous nodules adjacent to the corneoscleral limbus. Synonym: allergic conjunctivitis, spring conjunctivitis, spring ophthalmia, vernal catarrh, vernal keratoconjunctivitis. (05 Mar 2000) |
| spring-run fish | <marine biology> Anadromous fish that return to fresh water in the spring, migrate to spawning areas and spawn during late summer or early autumn. (04 Mar 1998) |
| springbuck | <zoology> A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lighty and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Synonym: springer. Alternative forms: springboc, and springbock. Origin: D. Springbok; springen to spring, leap + bok a he-goat, buck. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| springe | A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. "As a woodcock to mine own springe." (Shak) Origin: From Spring,: cf. G. Sprenkel, Prov. E. Springle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| springer | 1. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game. 2. A young plant. 3. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. Hence: The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost. The skew back is one form of springer. The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment for each section of vaulting. 4. <zoology> The grampus. 5. <zoology> A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel. 6. <zoology> A species of antelope; the sprinkbok. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| spring |
the season of growth; "the emerging buds were a sure sign of spring"; "he will hold office until the spring of next year" a natural flow of ground water jump: move forward by leaps and bounds; "The horse bounded across the meadow"; "The child leapt across the puddle"; "Can you jump over the fence?" form: develop into a distinctive entity; "our plans began to take shape" a metal elastic device that returns to its shape or position when pushed or pulled or pressed; "the spring was broken" leap: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards bounce: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" give: the elasticity of something that can be stretched and returns to its original length develop suddenly; "The tire sprang a leak" a point at which water issues forth produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly; "He sprang these news on me just as I was leaving"
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| sprout |
any new growth of a plant such as a new branch or a bud shoot: produce buds, branches, or germinate; "the potatoes sprouted" a newly grown bud (especially from a germinating seed) put forth and grow sprouts or shoots; "the plant sprouted early this year"
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| spruce |
light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork spruce up: make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child" spruce up: dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion; "He spruced up for the party" dapper: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
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| sprue |
a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation
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| sprain fracture |
the separation of a tendon or ligament from its insertion, taking with it a piece of bone.
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| SPR | a person who sprawls |
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| SPR | an ungainly posture with arms and legs spread about |
| SPR | spread out irregularly |
| SPR | spreading out carelessly (as if wandering) in different directions |
| SPR | spread out irregularly |
| SPR | a dispenser that turns a liquid (such as perfume) into a fine spray |
| SPR | flower arrangement consisting of a single branch or shoot bearing flowers and foliage |
| SPR | a jet of vapor |
| SPR | a quantity of small objects flying through the air |
| SPR | a pesticide in suspension or solution |
| SPR | water in small drops in the atmosphere |
| SPR | scatter in a mass or jet of droplets |