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That quality or condition of being salient; a leaping; a springing forward; an assaulting.

Moving by leaps or springs; leaping; bounding; jumping. "Frogs and salient animals." Sir T. Browne.

A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.

A leaping forth; a darting; a spring.

onds, or inclosures from the sea. -- Salt sedative (Chem.), boracic acid. [Obs.] -- Salt spring, a spring of salt water. -- Salt tree (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Halimodendron argenteum) growing in the salt plains of the Caspian region and in Siberia. -- Salt water, water impregnated with salt, as that of the o…

In a leaping position; springing forward; -- applied especially to the squirrel, weasel, and rat, also to the cat, greyhound, monkey, etc.

spasm (Med.), an affection in which pressure of the foot on a floor causes the patient to spring into the air, so as to make repeated involuntary motions of hopping and jumping. J. Ross.

A colloquial or humorous appelation for a negro; sometimes, the offspring of a black person and a mulatto; a zambo.

Native boric acid, found in saline incrustations on the borders of hot springs near Sasso, in the territory of Florence.

rument, principally used in cupping, containing several lancets moved simultaneously by a spring, for making slight incisions.

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

Abounding with springs. [Obs.]

To make a mark. With the separated points of a pair of spring dividers scribe around the edge of the templet. A. M. Mayer.

The catch in a gunlock by which the hammer is held cocked or half cocked. Sear spring, the spring which causes the sear to catch in the notches by which the hammer is held.

of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The several seasons of the year in…

rieties which appear at different seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which the spring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.

That from which anything springs; first principle; original; source; as, the seeds of virtue or vice.

Springing from vainglory or vanity; vain; boastful. Dryden.

personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

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