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Not attracting notice; not conspicuous. Noteless as the race from which he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

mble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.

and guardian of mankind. He is the opponent of Ahriman, the spirit of evil, both being sprung from Eternity, or, according to another version, Ahriman being the offspring of a moment of doubt on the part of Ormazd. Ormazd is attended by angels and archangels. He is represented as a bearded man inclosed in a winged cir…

way; to depart; to take leave; to quit each other; hence, to die; -- often with from. He wrung Bassanio's hand, and so they parted. Shak. He owned that he had parted from the duke only a few hours before. Macaulay. His precious bag, which he would by no means part from. G. Eliot.

A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale; also, the changes rung on a set of bells. To ring a peal. See under Ring.

A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration. Each…

The doctrine that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair.

One who maintains that animals of the same species have sprung from more than one original pair; -- opposed to monogenist.

A piece of music made up of different airs strung together; a medley.

pecifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds. Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime. Spenser.

d. Milton. He [Alexander Hamilton] touched the dead corpse of the public credit, and it sprung upon its feet. D. Webster.

e be light, said God; and forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep. Milton.

The so-called "Twilight of the Gods" (called in German Götterdämmerung), the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the Æsir (gods) on the one hand, and on the other, the gaints and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki (who is escaped from bondage).

, to fly too far and wide from its master while hovering above waiting till the game is sprung; -- said of the hawk. Encyc. Brit.

The step of a ladder; a rung. Clarendon.

One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; -- called also Seekers. See Seeker.

bute; to result. The evil, soon Driven back, redounded as a flood on those From whom it sprung. Milton. The honor done to our religion ultimately redounds to God, the author of it. Rogers. both . . . will devour great quantities of paper, there will no small use redound from them to that manufacture. Addison.…

A rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The recovery of game once sprung; -- an old sporting term. [Obs.] Nares.

A step or round of a ladder; a rung.