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The spring to which a drawbar is attached.

An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, and other missiles; a springal.

The slender recoil spring which regulates the motion of the balance in a timepiece.

A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.

Fountain; source. The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.

small, graceful South African antelope (Nanotragus oreotragus), which, like the chamois, springs from one crag to another with great agility; -- called also kainsi. [Written also klippspringer.]

Spring or source of life.

The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.

descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. To the gods alone Our future offspring and our wives are known. Dryden.

The osprey. [R.]

To spring out; to issue.

To spring or leap over.

To spring up. Tennyson.

A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply. Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it; but the instruction of fools is folly. Prov. xvi. 22.

An aborted offspring. [Obs.] Holland.

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the produce of money lent. "Interest accrues to principal." Abbott. The great and essential advantages accruing to society from the freedom of the press. Junius.

A system of elastic springs for relieving the strain upon a rope, as in deep-sea dredging.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.] Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.