Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Spryest"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Spry \Spry\, a. [Compar. {Sprier} or {Spryer}; superl. {Spriest}
or {Spryest}.] [Cf. dial. Sw. sprygg lively, skittish, and E.
sprag.]
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
[U.S. & Local Eng.]
She is as spry as a cricket. --S. Judd
(Margaret).
If I'm not so large as you, You are not so small as I,
And not half so spry. --Emerson.
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