Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter S - Page 138

Spray (v. t.) An instrument for applying such a spray; an atomizer.

Spray (v. t.) To let fall in the form of spray.

Spray (v. t.) To throw spray upon; to treat with a liquid in the form of spray; as, to spray a wound, or a surgical instrument, with carbolic acid.

Sprayboard (n.) See Dashboard, n., 2 (b).

Spread (imp. & p. p.) of Spread

Spreading (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spread

Spread (v. t.) To extend in length and breadth, or in breadth only; to stretch or expand to a broad or broader surface or extent; to open; to unfurl; as, to spread a carpet; to spread a tent or a sail.

Spread (v. t.) To extend so as to cover something; to extend to a great or grater extent in every direction; to cause to fill or cover a wide or wider space.

Spread (v. t.) To divulge; to publish, as news or fame; to cause to be more extensively known; to disseminate; to make known fully; as, to spread a report; -- often acompanied by abroad.

Spread (v. t.) To propagate; to cause to affect great numbers; as, to spread a disease.

Spread (v. t.) To diffuse, as emanations or effluvia; to emit; as, odoriferous plants spread their fragrance.

Spread (v. t.) To strew; to scatter over a surface; as, to spread manure; to spread lime on the ground.

Spread (v. t.) To prepare; to set and furnish with provisions; as, to spread a table.

Spread (v. i.) To extend in length and breadth in all directions, or in breadth only; to be extended or stretched; to expand.

Spread (v. i.) To be extended by drawing or beating; as, some metals spread with difficulty.

Spread (v. i.) To be made known more extensively, as news.

Spread (v. i.) To be propagated from one to another; as, the disease spread into all parts of the city.

Spread (n.) Extent; compass.

Spread (n.) Expansion of parts.

Spread (n.) A cloth used as a cover for a table or a bed.

Spread (n.) A table, as spread or furnished with a meal; hence, an entertainment of food; a feast.

Spread (n.) A privilege which one person buys of another, of demanding certain shares of stock at a certain price, or of delivering the same shares of stock at another price, within a time agreed upon.

Spread (n.) An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.

Spread () imp. & p. p. of Spread, v.

Spread-eagle (a.) Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.

Spreader (n.) One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.

Spreader (n.) A machine for combining and drawing fibers of flax to form a sliver preparatory to spinning.

Spreadingly (adv.) Increasingly.

Sprechery (n.) Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as have been collected by depredation.

Spree (n.) A merry frolic; especially, a drinking frolic; a carousal.

Sprenge (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.

Sprengel pump () A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.

Sprent () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.

Sprew (n.) Thrush.

Spreynd () p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.

Sprig (n.) A small shoot or twig of a tree or other plant; a spray; as, a sprig of laurel or of parsley.

Sprig (n.) A youth; a lad; -- used humorously or in slight disparagement.

Sprig (n.) A brad, or nail without a head.

Sprig (n.) A small eyebolt ragged or barbed at the point.

Sprigged (imp. & p. p.) of Sprig

Sprigging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Sprig

Sprig (v. t.) To mark or adorn with the representation of small branches; to work with sprigs; as, to sprig muslin.

Sprigged (a.) Having sprigs.

Spriggy (a.) Full of sprigs or small branches.

Spright (n.) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.

Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.

Spright (n.) A kind of short arrow.

Spright (v. t.) To haunt, as a spright.

Sprightful (a.) Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Sprightless (a.) Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

Sprightliness (n.) The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

Sprightly (superl.) Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

Sprigtail (n.) The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail.

Sprigtail (n.) The sharp-tailed grouse.

Sprang (imp.) of Spring

Sprung () of Spring

Sprung (p. p.) of Spring

Springing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Spring

Spring (v. i.) To leap; to bound; to jump.

Spring (v. i.) To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

Spring (v. i.) To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Spring (v. i.) To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

Spring (v. i.) To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

Spring (v. i.) 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.

Spring (v. i.) To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle.

Spring (v. i.) To grow; to prosper.

Spring (v. t.) 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.

Spring (v. t.) To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly.

Spring (v. t.) To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine.

Spring (v. t.) To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard.

Spring (v. t.) To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap.

Spring (v. t.) 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.

Spring (v. t.) To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence.

Spring (v. i.) A leap; a bound; a jump.

Spring (v. i.) A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow.

Spring (v. i.) Elastic power or force.

Spring (v. i.) 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.

Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain.

Spring (v. i.) Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive.

Spring (v. i.) That which springs, or is originated, from a source;

Spring (v. i.) A race; lineage.

Spring (v. i.) A youth; a springal.

Spring (v. i.) A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland.

Spring (v. i.) That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune.

Spring (v. i.) 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.

Spring (v. i.) The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage.

Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely.

Spring (v. i.) 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.

Springal (a.) Alt. of Springall

Springald (a.) Alt. of Springall

Springall (a.) An active, springly young man.

Springal (n.) An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

Springboard (n.) An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

Springbok (n.) Alt. of Springbuck

Springbuck (n.) 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. Called also springer.

Springe (v. i.) 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.

Springe (v. t.) To catch in a springe; to insnare.

Springe (v. t.) To sprinkle; to scatter.

Springer (n.) One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

Springer (n.) A young plant.

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