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To filch or steal; as, to prig a handkerchief. [Cant]

Priggism.

Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical. -- Prig"gish*ly, adv. -- Prig"gish-ness, n.

The quality or state of being priggish; the manners of a prig. Ed. Rev.

imp. of Prick. Chaucer.

Of the goat kind.

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

Having sprigs.

Full of sprigs or small branches.

Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. [Obs.] "The high heroic spright." Spenser. Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright. Spenser.

Full of spirit or of life; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay. [Obs.] -- Spright"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Shak. -- Spright"ful*ness, n. [Obs.] Spoke like a sprightful gentlemen. Shak. Steeds sprightful as the light. Cowley.

Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity. In dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and alacrity does she [the soul] exert herself! Addison.

Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. [Local, U.S.]

osition or posture; perpendicular; vertical, or nearly vertical; pointing upward; as, an upright tree. With chattering teeth, and bristling hair upright. Dryden. All have their ears upright. Spenser.

In an upright or just manner. [Obs.] Shak.

In an upright manner.

the quality or state of being upright.

Grass and sprigs beaten or trampled down by a stag passing through them. Crabb.