At once, farewel, O faithful spouse! they said; musick of certain waters, which spouted ont of At once th' encroaching rinds their closing lips the side of the hills.

Sidney invade.

Dryden. No hands could force it thence, so fixt it SPOU's ED. adj. [from the noun.] Wed

stood, ded; espoused; joined together as in

Till out it rush'd, expelld by streams of spouting blood.

Dryden. matrimony.

It spouts up out of deep wells, and flies forth They led the vine

at the tops of them, upon the face of the ground, To wed her elm; she spous'd about him twines

Woodward. Her marriageable arms.

Milton.

All the glittering hill SPOU'SELESS.adj. [from spouse.] Wanting Is bright with spouting rills.

Thomson. a husband or wife. To tempt the spouseless queen with am'rous SPRAG. adj. Vigorous ; sprightly. A prowiles,

vincial word. Resort the nobles from the neighb'ring isles.

A good sprag memory.

Sbakspeare. Popes' To SPRAIN. v. a. [corrupted from strain.} SPOUT. n. s. [from spuyt, Dutch.]

To stretch the ligaments of a joint with1. A pipe, or mouth of a pipe or vessel,

out dislocation of the bone. out of which any thing is poured.

Should the big last extend the shoe too wide, She gasping to begin some speech, her eyes The sudden turn may stretch the swelling vein, Became ewo spouts:

Sbakspeare.

Thy cracking joini unhinge, or ancle spruin. In whales that breathe, lest the water should

Сту. get unto the lungs, an ejection thereof is con

SPRAIN. n. s. [from the verb. ] Extension trived by a fistula or spout at the head. Brown.

of the ligaments without dislocation of If you chance it to lack, Be it claret or sack,

the joint. I'll make this snout

I was in pain, and thought it was with some To deal it about,

sprain at tennis.

Temple.
Or this to run out,

SPRAINTS. n. s. The dung of an otter.
As it were from a spout.
Ben Jonson.

Dier.
As waters did in storms, now pitch runs out, SPRANG. The preterit of spring.
As lead, when a fir'd church becomes one spout. Mankind sprang from one common original;

Donne. whence this tradition would be universally difIn Gaza they couch vessels of earth in their fused.

Tillotson, walls, to gather the wind from the top, and to

SPRAT. ^. s. [sprot, Dutch ; sarda, Lat.) pass it down in spouts into rooms. Bacon,

A small sea fish. Let the water be fed by some higher than the

So oft, in feasts with costly changes clad, pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged by some equality of bores, that

To crammed maws a sprai new stuinach brings. it stay little.

Bacon. In this single cathedral, the very spouts are

All-saints do lay for porke and sowse, loaded with ornaments.

Addison, For sprats and spurlings for their house. Tusser. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,

Of round fish there are brit, sprat, barn,

smelts. And China's earth receives the smoking tide.

Careto. Pope. To SPRAWL.V. n. [spradle, Danish; spar2. Water falling in a body; a cataract,

telen, Dutch.] such as is seen in the hot climates, when 1. To struggle, as in the convulsions of clouds sometimes discharge all their

death. water at once.

Hang the child, that he may see it sprawl; Not the dreadful spout,

A sight to vex the father's soul.

Sbakspeare. Which shipmen do the hurricano call,

Some lie sprawling on the ground, Consering'd in mass by the almighty sun,

With many a gash and bloody wound. Hudibras. Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune's ear

2. To tumble or creep with much agitaIn his descent, than shall my prompted sword

tion and contortion of the limbs. Falling on Diomede.

Sbukspeare. The birds were not fledged; but, upon sprawlThe force of these motions pressing more in ing and struggling to get clear of the famé, down some places than in others, there would fall not they tumbled.

L'Estrange. showers, but great spouts or cascades of water.

Telamon hap'd to meet

Burnet. A rising root that held his fasten'd feet; To SPOUT. v. a. (from the noun.] To

So down he fell, whom sprawling on the ground

His brother from the wooden gyves unbound. pour with violence, or in a collected

Dryden. body, as from a spout.

Hence, long before the child can crawl, We will bear home that lusty blood again, He learns to kick, and wince, and sprawl. Prior. Which here we came to spout against your town. Did the stars do this feat once only, which

Shakspeare. gave beginning to human race? who were there I intend two fountains; the one that sprinkleth then in the world, to observe the births of those or spouteib water, the other a fair receipt of first men, and calculate their nativities, as they

Baion.
sprawled out of ditches?

Bentley She swims in blood, and blood does spouting He ran, he leapt into a ficod, throw

There sprawld a while, and scarce got out, To heav'n, that heav'n men's cruelties might All cover'd o'er with slime.

Swift. know,

Wailer. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale ;

SPRAY. n. s. [of the same race with sprit He twists his back, and rears his threat'ning tail:

and sprout.] He spouts the tide.

Creecb.

1. The extremity of a branch. TO SFOUT. v.n. Toissue as from a spout. At sight whereof each bird that sits on spray,

They laid them down hard by the murmuring And every beast that to his den was tied,

Sidney,

water.

tent.

Come forth afresh out of their late dismay, and am already ploughing up some, fencing And to the light lift up their drooping head! others.

Addison. Hubberd's Tale.

2. Expansion of parts. Thus droops this lofty pine, and hangs his

No flower hath that spread of the woodbine. sprays;

Bacan. Thus Éleanor's pride dies in her younger days.

SPREADER,
Sbakspeare.

. n. s. [from spread.] The wind that whistles through the sprays

I. One that spreads.
Maintains the consort of the song;

By conforming ourselves, we should be spreadAnd hidden birds, with native lays,

ers of a worse infection than any we are likely The golden sleep prolong. Dryden. to draw from papists, by our conformity with

them in ceremonies.

Hooker. 2. The foam of the sea, commonly written

2. Publisher ; divulger; disseminator. spry. Winds raise some of the salt with the spray.

If it be a mistake, Y desire I may not be acArbutbrot. cused for a spreader of false news.

Swift. TO SPREAD. v. a. [rpredan, Saxon, SPRENT. part. [from sprene, to sprinkle ; spreyden, Dutch.]

rpnengan, rprenan, Saxon; sprengen, 1. To extend ; to expand ; to make to Dutch.] Sprinkled. Obsolete. cover or fill a larger space than before. O lips, that kiss'd that hand with my tears He bought a field where he had spread his

sprent.

Sidney. Genesis. SPRIG. n. s. [ysbrig, Welsh ; so Davies : Rizpah spread sackcloth for her upon the rock. but it is probably of the same race with

2 Samuel.

spring.] A small branch; a spray. Faire attendants then

The substance is true ivy; after it is taken The sheets and bedding of the man of men, down, the friends of the family are desirous to Within a cabin of the hollow keele,

have some sprig to keep.

Bacan. Spred and made soft.

Chapman. Our chilling climate hardly bears Make the trees more tall, more spread, and

A sprig of bays in fifty years; more hasty than they use to be. Bacon. While ev'ry fool his claim alleges,

Silver spread into plates is brought from As if it grew in common hedges. Swift. Tarshish.

Jeremiah. SPRIG Chrystal. n. s. Shall funeral eloquence her colours spread,

In perpendicular fissures, chrystal is found in And scatter roses on the wealthy dead? Young.

form of an hexangular column, adhering at one 2. To cover by extension.

end to the stone, and near the other lessening Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted

gradually, till it terminates in a point : this is grace,

called by lapidaries sprig or rock chrystal. And an unusual paleness spreads her face.

Woodward. Granville. 3. To cover over.

SPRI'GGY.adj. [from sprig.] Full of small The workman melteth a graven image, and

branches. the goldsmith spreadetb it over with gold. Isaiah. SPRIGHT. n. s. [contraction of spirit ; 4. To stretch; to extend.

spiritus, Latin. It was anciently written Spread o'er the silver waves thy golden hair. sprete, or sprgte ; and spirit, as not

Shakspeare. written, was long considered in verse as He arose from kneeling, with his hands spread up to heaven, and he blessed the congregation.

a monosyllable: this word should there1 Kings.

fore be spelled sprite, and its derivatives The stately trees fast spread their branches. spritely, spriteful; but custom has de

Milton.

termined otherwise.] Deep in a rich alcove the prince was laid, 1. Spirit ; shade; soul; incorporeal agent. Fast by his side Pisistratus lay spread,

She doth display In age his equal, on a splendid bed.

The gate with pearis and rubies richly dight, 5. To publish; to divulge; to disseminate. Through which her words so vise do make

They, when departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

Mattbew.

To hear the message of her spright. Spenser. 6. To emit as effluvia or emanations; to

Forth he called out of deep darkness dread

Legions of sprights, the which, like little flies diffuse.

Flutt'ring about his ever damned head, Their course thro' thickest constellations held, Await whereto their service he applies. F. Qxeen. They spread their bane.

Milto:i.

While with heavenly charity she spoke, TO SPREAD. V. n. To extend or expand A streaming blaze the silent shadows broke; litself.

The birds obscene to forests wing'd their flight, Can any understand the spreadings of the And gaping graves receiv'd the guilty spright. clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Job.

Dryden. The princes of Germany had but a dull fear 2. Walking spirit; apparition, of the greatness of Spain, upon a general appre- The ideas of goblins and sprights have no more hension only of their spreading and ambitious to do with darkness than light; yet let but a desigus.

Bacon. foolish maid inculcate these often on the mind Plants, if they spread much, are seldom tall. of a child, possibly he shall never be able to

Bacon.
separate them again,

Locke.
Great Pan, who wont to chase the fair, 3. Power which gives cheerfulness or cou.
And lov'd the spreading oak, was there. Addison.
The valley opened at the farther end, spread-

rage. ing forth into an immense ocean.

O chastity! the chief of heav'nly lights, Addison.

Which mak'st us most immortal shape to wear, SPREAD. n. s. (from the verb.]

Hold thou my heart, establish thou my 1. Extent ; compass.

sprights ; I bave got a fine spread of improveable lands; To only thce my constant course I bear,

Pope.

their way,

morn!

Till spotless soul unto thy bosom fly;

teeth of the young 'not sprang, are effects of pro Such life to lead, such death I vow to die.

vidence.

Ray. Sidney. 3. To proceed as from seed. 4. An arrow. Not in use.

Ye shall eat this year such things as grow of We had in use for sea fight short arrows called themselves; and in the second year that which sprights, without any other heads save wood springeth of the same.

2 Kings. sharpened; which were discharged out of mus- Much more good of sin shall spring. Milton. kets, and would pierce through the sides of ships' 4. To come into existence; to issue forth. where a bullet would not.

Bacon.

Hadst thou sway'd as kings should do, To SPRIGHT. v.a. To haunt as a spright. Giving no ground unto the house of York, A ludicrous use.

They never then had sprung like summer dies. I am sprighted with a fool. Sbakspeare.

Shakspeare.

Ev'n thought meets thought, ere froin the SPRIGHTFUL. adj. [spright and full.] lips it part, Lively ; brisk ; gay; vigorous.

And each warm wish springs mutual from the The spirit of the time shall teach me speed.

heart.

Pope. -Spoke like a sprightful noble gentleman. S.

To arise ; to appear; to begin to ap· Sbakspeare.

pear or to exist. Steeds sprigbtful as the light. Cowley. When the day began to spring, they let her Happy my eyes when they behold thy face:

go.

Fudges. My heavy hcare will leave its doleful beating

To them which sat in the region and shadow At sight of thee, and bound with sprightful joys. of death, light is sprung up.

Matthew. Otway.

Fly, fly, prophane fogs ! far hence fly away, SPRI'GHTFULLY. adv. [from sprightful.] Taint not the purc streams of the springing day Briskly; vigorously,

With your dull influence: it is for you
Norfolk, sprightfully and bold,

To sit and scowl upon night's heavy brow.
Stays but the summons of the appellant's trum-

Crashau. pet.

Sbakspears.

Do not blast my springing hopes,

Which thy kind hand has planted in my soul. SPRIGHTLESS. adj. [from spright.] Dull;

Rowe. enervated; sluggish.

6. To issue with effect or force. Are you grown

Swift fly the years, and rise th' expected Benumb'd with fear, or virtue's sprightless cold?

Cowley. Oh spring to light, auspicious babe, be born! SPRIGHTLINESS. n. s. [from sprightly. ]

Popes Liveliness ; briskness; vigour; gayety; 7. To proceed as from ancestors, or a vivacity.

country. The soul is clogged when she acts in con- How youngly he began to serve his country, juction with a companion so heavy; but, in How long continued; and what stock he springs dreams, observe with what a sprightliness and

of; alacrity does she exert herself, Addison. The noble house of Marcius. Shakspeares SPRI'GHTLY. adj. [from spright.] Gay;

Our Lord sprang out of Judea. Hebrew's.

All these brisk; lively; vigorous; airy; vivacious. Produce the wine that makes us bold,

Shall, like the brethren sprung of dragon's teeth, And sprightly wit and love inspires. Dryden.

Ruin each other, and he fall amongst 'em. When now the sprightly trumpet, from afar,

Ben Yoxsoa, Had giv’n the signal of approaching war. Dryd.

Heroes of old, by rapine and by spoil,

In search of fame did all the world embroil ; Each morn they wak'd me with a sprightly lay:

Thus to their gods each then allied his name, Of opening heav'n they sung, and gladsome day.

This sprang from Jove, and that from Titan Prior.

Granvilie. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the

8. To proceed as from a ground, cause, or

green; She runs, but hopes she does not run unseen. reason.

Pope. They found new hope to spring TOSPRING.V. n. preterit sprung or sprang,

Out of despair.

Milton anciently sprong ; part. sprung: (rprin

Some have been deceived into an opinion, that

the inheritance of rule over men, and property gan, Saxon ; springen, Dutch.]

in things, sprang from the same original, and de1. To arise out of the ground, and grow, scend by the same rules.

Locke. by vegetative power. All blest secrets,

9. To grow ; to thrive. All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth,

What makes all this but Jupiter the king, Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate At whose command we perish and we spring ? In the good man's distress. Shakspçure.

Then 't is our best, since thus ordain'd 'to dic, To his musick plants and flowers

To make a virtue of necessity. Dryden. Ever sprung, as son and showers

10. To bound; to leap; to jump; to rush There had made a lasting spring; Shalspeare. hastily; to appear suddenly. To satisfy the desoiace ground, and cause the

Some strange commotion bud of the tender herb to spring forth. job. Is in his brain; hc bites his lip, and starts;

Other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit Stops on a sudden, looks upon the ground, that sprang up and increased.

Mark.

Then lays his finger on his temple; straight
Tell me, in what happy fields

Springs out into fast gait, then stops again.
The thistle springs, to which the lily yields ?

şbakspeare. Pope. 2. To begin to grow.

I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he

was a man child, than now in first seeing he had That the nipples should be made with such proved himself a man.

Sbakspeare. perforations as to admit passage to the milk He called for a light, and sprang in, and fell Whica drawn, otherwise to retain it; and the

came.

a

soar,

sprung a leak.

:

When heav'n was nam'd, they loos'd their

The nurse, surpris'd with fright, hold again;

Starts up and leaves her bed, and springs a light. Then sprung she forth, they follow'd her amain.

Dryden. Dryden. Thus man by his own strength to heav'n would Afraid to sleep, Her hlood all fever'd, with a furious leap

And would not be oblig'd to God for more: She sprung from bed.

Dryden. Vain, wretched creature, how art thou misled, Nor lies she long; but, as her fates ordain, To think thy wit these godlike notions bred! Springs up to life; and, fresh to second pain, These truths are not the product of thy mind, Is sav'd iv-day, to-morrow to be slain. Dryden. But dropt from heav'n, and of a nobler kind: See, aw'd by heav'n, the blooming Hebrew Reveal'd religion first inform'd thy sight, flies

And reason saw not, till faith spring the light. Her artful tongue, and more persuasive eyes;

Drader. And, springing from her disappointed arms,

He that has such a burning zeal, and springs Prefers a dungeon to forbidden charms,

such mighty discoveries, must needs be an adBlackmore. mirable patriot.

Collier. The mountain stag, that springs 3. To make by starting: applied to a ship. From height to height, and bounds along the People discharge themselves of burdensome plains,

reflections, as of the cargo of a ship chat has Nor has a master to restrain his course;

L'Estrange. T at mountain stag would Vanoe rather be

No more accuse thy pen; but charge the crime Than be a slave.

Philips. On native sloth, and negligence of time : II. To fly with elastick power; to start. Beware the publick laughter of the town,

A link of horsehair, that will easily slip, fasten Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown. to the end of the stick that springs. Mortimor.

Drydes. 12. To rise from a covert.

Whether she sprung a leak, I cannot find, My doors are hateful to my eyes,

Or whether she was overset with wind, Fillid and damm'd up with gaping creditors,

But down at once with all her crew she went. Dry. Watehful as fowlers when their game will spring. 4. To discharge : applied to a mine.

Otway.

Our miners discovered several of the enemies A covey of partridges springing in our front, mines, who have sprung divers others which did put our infantry in disorder. Addison. little execution.

Tatler. 13. To issue from a fountain.

I sprung a mine, whereby the whole nest was Israel's servants digged in the valley, and found

overthrown.

Addison. a well of springing water.

Genesis. s. To contrive on a sudden; to produce Let the wide world his praises sing,

hastily ; to offer unexpectedly. Where Tagus and Euphrates spring ;

The friends to the cause sprang a new proAnd from the Danube's frosty banks to those ject; and it was advertised that the crisis could Where from an unknown head great Nilus not appear, till the ladies had shewn their zeal flows. Roscommon. against the pretender.

Swifi. 14. To proceed as from a source.

6. To pass by leaping. A barbarous use. 'T is true from force the noblest title springs,

Unbeseeming skill I therefore hold from that which first made To spring the fence, to rein the prancing steed. kings. Dryden.

Tbonsson, 15. To shoot; to issue with speed and 7. Of the verb spring the primary sense is violence.

to grow out of the ground : so plants Then shook the sacred shrine, and sudden

spring, thence spring the season ; so light

water springs, thence spring a founSprung through the vaulted roof, and made the

tain. Plants rise unexpectedly, and temple bright : The pow'r, behold! the pow'r in glory shone,

waters break out violently; thence any By her bent bow and her keen arrow's known. thing done suddenly, or coming hastily,

Dryden. is said to spring; thence spring means The friendly gods a springing gale enlarg'd; an elastick body. Thus the active sigThe Acet swift tilcing o'er the surges flew,

nifications all import suddenness' or Till Grecian cliffs appear'd.

Popes

force. TO SPRING. v. a. 1. To start ; to rouse game.

SPRING. n. s. [from the verb.] Thus I reclaim'd my buzzard love to fly, In The season in which plants rise and At what, and when, and how, and where I vegetate ; the vernal season. chose :

Orpheus with his lute made trees, Now.negligent of sport I lie;

And the mountain-tops, that freeze, And now, as other fawkners use,

Bow themselves when he did sing: I spring a mistress, swear, write, sigh, and die; To his musick plants and flowers And the game killid, or lost, go talk or lie. Ever sprung, as sun and showers

Donne. There had made a lasting spring. Sbaksp. That sprung the game you were to set,

The spring visiteth not these quarters so Before you 'd time to draw the net. Hudibras. timely as the eastern parts.

Carew. A large cock pheasant he sprung in one of the Come, gentle spring, ethereal mildness come, neighbouring woods. Spectator; And from the bosom of

yon dropping cloud Here I use a great cal of diligence before I Upon our plains descend.

Thomson. can spring any thing; whereas in town, whilst

2. An elastick body; a body which, when I am following one character, I am crassed by

distorted, has the power of restoring another, that they puzzle the chase. Addison.

itself to its former state. See how the well-taught pointer leads the way! The scent grows warm: he stops, he springs the

This may be performed by the strength of prey.

Gay.

some such spring as is used in watches: this

spring may be applied to one wheel, which shall 2. To produce quickly or unexpectedly, give an equal motion to both the wings. Wilkins.

am,

gated.

The spring must be made of good steel, trell Nile hears him knocking at his sevenfold gates, ter pered; and the wider the two ends of the And seeks his hidden spring, and fears his nefring stand asunder, the wider it throw's the

phews fates.

Dryden. chape of the vice open.

Moxon. He bathed himself in cold spring water in the He that was sharp-sighted enough to see the

midst of winter.

Locke. configuration of the minute particles of the The water that falls down from the clouds, spring of a clock, and upon what peculiar in:- sinking into beds of rock or clay, breaks out pulse its elastick motion depends, would no doubt in springs, commonly at the bottom of hilly discover something very admirable. Locke. ground.

Locke. 3. Elastick force.

8. A source; that by which any thing is Heav'ns, what a spring was in his arm, to supplied. throw!

To that great spring which doth great kingHow high he held his shield, and rose at ev'ry

doms move, blow!

Dryden. The sacred spring whence right and honour Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as

streams; to be void of elasticity, will not rebound frein Distilling virtue, shedding peace and love one another: impenetrability makes them only In every place, as Cynthia sheds her beams. stop. If two equal bodies meet directly in va

Davies. cuo, they will by the laws of motion stop where I move, I see, I speak, discourse, and know;

I they meet, lose their motion, and remain in

Though now I 1 was not always so: rest; unless they be elastick, and receive new Then that from which I was must be before, motion from their spring.

Newton. Whom, as my spring of being, I adore. Dryden. The soul is gathered within herself, and re- Rolling down through so many barbarous corers that spring, which is weakened when she

ages, from the spring of Virgil, it bears along operates more in concert with the body. Addison. with it the filth of the Goths and Vandals. Dryd.

In adult persons, when the fibres cannot ary He has a secret spring of spiritual joy, and the more yield, they must break, or lose their continual fcast of a good conscience within, that spring: Arbuthnot. forbids him to be miserable.

Bentley 4. Any active power; any cause by which 9. Rise; beginning. motion or action is produced or propa- About the spring of the day, Samuel called

Saul to the top of the house. 1 Sunnuel. My heart sinks in me while I hear him sreak, 10. Cause; original. And every slacken'd fibre drops its hold,

The reason of the quicker or slower terminaLike nature letting down the springs of life; tion of this distemper, arises from these three So much the name of father awes me still. Dryd. * strings.

Blackmore. Nature is the same, and man is the same, has The first springs of great events, like those of the same affections and passions, and the same great rivers, are often mcan and little. Swift. springs that give them motion. Kymer. SPRING. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move. SPRI'NGAL.

n. s. A youth. Obsolete.

Pope. Before the bull she pictur'd winged love, 5. A leap; a bourd ; a jump ; 'a violent With his young brother sport, light fluttering effort; a sudden struggle.

Upon the waves, as each had been a dove;

The one his bow and shafts, the other spring The pris'ner with a spring from prison broke; Then stretch'd his feather'd fans with all his

A burning tead about his head did move,

As in their sire's new love both triumphing. might, And to the neighb'ring maple wing'd his fight.

Sperser. Dryden.

SPRINGE. n. s. [from spring.) A gin; a With what a spring his furious soul broke loose, noose which, fastened to any elastick And left the limbsstili quivering on the ground ! body, catches by a spring or jerk.

Addison. As a woodcock to my own springe, Osrick, 6. A leak; a start of plank.

I'm justly kill'd with mine own treachery. Shok. Each petty hand

Let goats for food their loaded udders lend; Can steer a ship becálm’d: but he that will

But neither springes, nets, por snares, employ.

Dryden. Govern, and carry her to her ends, must know His tides, his'currents; how to shift his sails;

With hairy springes we the birds betray,

Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey. Popes Where her springs are, her leaks, and how to

Ben Jonson.

SyRI'NGER. n. s. [from spring. ] One who

rouses game. 7. A fountain; an issue of water from the SPRI'NGHALI. n. s. (spring and halt.) earth.

A laineness by which the horse twitches Now stop thy sfrings; my sea shall suck them dry,

up his legs. And swell so much the higher by their ebb.

They 've all new legs, and lame ones: one Skakspeare.

would take it, Springs on the tops of hills pass through

That never saw them pace before, the spavin a great deal of pure earth, with less mixture of

And springhalt reign’d among them. Shakspearesi other waters.

Bacon. SPRI'NGINESS. n. s. [from springs.) Elas. When in th' effects she doth the causes know, ticity; power of restoring itself. And seeing the stream, thinks where the spring Where there is a continued endeavour of the doth rise :

parts of a body to put themselves into another And seeing the branch, conceives the root state, the progress may be much more slow; below;

since it was a great while before the texture of These things she views without the body's eyes. the corpuscles of the steel were so altered as to

Davies. make them lose their former springiness. Boyle. He adds the running springs and standing lakes, The air is a thin fluid body, endowed with And bounding banks for winding rivers makes. elasticity and springiness, capable of condensa. Dryden, tion and rarefaction.

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