Word Meanings - SELF-ORIGINATING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beginning wwith, or springing from, one's self.

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• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• 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.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• SPRINGHALT
  A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.
• SPRINGTIME
  The season of spring; springtide.
• SPRINGBOK; SPRINGBUCK
  A South African gazelle 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. Called also
• SPRINGLET
  A little spring. But yet from out the little hill Oozes the slender springlet still. Sir W. Scott.
• BEGINNING
  1. The act of doing that which begins anything; commencement of an action, state, or space of time; entrance into being or upon a course; the first act, effort, or state of a succession of acts or states. In the beginning God created the heaven
• SPRINGINESS
  The state or quality of being springly. Boyle.
• SPRINGAL; SPRINGALD; SPRINGALL
  An active, springly young man. "There came two springals of full tender years." Spenser. Joseph, when he was sold to Potiphar, that great man, was a fair young springall. Latimer.
• SPRINGING
  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 , the horizontal line drawn through
• SPRINGHEAD
  A fountain or source.
• SPRING
  springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. Springe, 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;
• BEGINNER
  One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro. A sermon of a new beginner. Swift.
• SPRINGTIDE
  The time of spring; springtime. Thomson.
• SPRING STEEL
  A variety of steel, elastic, strong, and tough, rolled for springs, etc.
• SPRINGLE
  A springe.
• SPRINGTAIL
  Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable
• SPRINGER
  The grampus. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game. 2. A young plant. Evelyn. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its support, and from which it seems to spring. Hence: The bottom stone
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• OSSPRINGER
  The osprey.
• ESPRINGAL
  An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.
• UPSPRING
  To spring up. Tennyson.
• CROSS-SPRINGER
  One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. Note:
• KLIPSPRINGER
  A small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to
• OFFSPRING
  1. The act of production; generation. 2. That which is produced; a child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden. 3. Origin; lineage; family.