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springing |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Spring \Spring\, v. i. [imp. {Sprang}or {Sprung}; p. p. {Sprung}; p. pr & vb n. {Springing}.] [AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw springa, Dan. springe; cf Gr ? to hasten. Cf {Springe}, {Sprinkle}.] 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Springing \Spring"ing\, n. 1. The act or process of one who or that which springs. 2. Growth; increase; also that which springs up a shoot; a plant. Thou blessest the springing thereof. --Ps. lxv. 10. {Springing line of an arch} (Arch.), the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also {spring of an arch}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use See {Use}, v. t.] 1. The act of employing anything or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon. This Davy serves you for good uses. --Shak. When he framed All things to man's delightful use --Milton. 2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as to have no further use for a book. --Shak. 3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used usefulness; utility. God made two great lights, great for their use To man. --Milton. 'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope. 4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit. Let later age that noble use envy. --Spenser. How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak. 5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.] O C[ae]sar! these things are beyond all use --Shak. 6. (Eccl.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as the Sarum, or Canterbury, use the Hereford use the York use the Roman use etc From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use --Pref. to Book of Common Prayer. 7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.] Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him --Jer. Taylor. 8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF oes, fr L. opus need business, employment, work Cf {Operate}.] (Law) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B. 9. (Forging) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end and afterward drawn down by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging. {Contingent}, or {Springing}, {use} (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event. {In use}. a In employment; in customary practice observance. b In heat; -- said especially of mares. --J. H. Walsh. {Of no use}, useless; of no advantage. {Of use}, useful; of advantage; profitable. {Out of use}, not in employment. {Resulting use} (Law), a use which being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it after such expiration. {Secondary}, or {Shifting}, {use}, a use which though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. --Blackstone. {Statute of uses} (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession. {To make use of}, {To put to use}, to employ; to derive service from to use From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: springing adj : moving upward and forward in a quick motion or series of motions; or characterized by leaps; "a leaping gait"; "the springing panther" [syn: {leaping}]
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