Hypertext Webster Gateway: "springing"

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) 1.7 (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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