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A cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

Springing back, as the bottom of an anaclastic glass. Anaclastic glass, a glass or phial, shaped like an inverted funnel, and with a very thin convex bottom. By sucking out a little air, the bottom springs into a concave form with a smart crack; and by breathing or blowing gently into the orifice, the bottom, with a li…

A messenger. [R.] The dear good angel of the Spring, The nightingale. B. Jonson.

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn.

ns to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

A wagon or cart, usually heavy and without springs, and often covered. [Oriental]

with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. Gray.

To spring up; to come into action, being, or notice; to become operative, sensible, or visible; to begin to act a part; to present itself; as, the waves of the sea arose; a persecution arose; the wrath of the king shall arise. There arose up a new king . . . which knew not Joseph. Ex. i. 8. The doubts that in his heart…

To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impu…

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

etween the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

w cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- She was barren of children. Bp. Hall.

Lower; inferior; applied to impulses or springs of action. [R.] "Basilar instincts." H. W. Beecher.

A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. Bath brick, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. -- Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. "People walked out, o…

A springboard in a circus or gymnasium; -- called also batule board.

ak for). (c) To make the action of a verb particular or definite; as, beget (to get as offspring); beset (to set around).