SPRING

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. Webster. A nat- ural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises in a defined channel. 41 Law T. (N. S.) 457.

A fountain of water; an issue of water from the earth, or the basin of water at the place of its issue. natural chasm in which water has collected, and from which it either is lost by percolation or rises in a defined channel. Furner Vv. Seabury, 135 N. Y. 50, 31 N. BE. 1004; Bloodgood v. Ayers, 108 N. Y. 405, 15 N. B. 433, 2 Am. St. Rep. 443; Proprietors of Mills v. Braintree Water Supply Co., 149 Mass. 478, 21 N. E. 761, 4 L. R. A. 272. —Spring-branch. In American land law. A branch of a stream, flowing from a spring. Wootton v. Redd’s Ex’r, 12 Grat. (Va.) 196.

A stream of water which does not appear as a stream to casual observation, and which is finally lost in the ground, may be described as a "spring" in a reservation in a conveyance.6Appellant and appellee owned adjoining lands, and appellee had been using water that ran from a spring on appellant's land into a pool on his (appellee's) side of the line, from which he watered stock. Although partially subterranean, the course of the vein was Pronounced spō'. L. spoliare, to strip off spoil, despoil. 23 Bl. Com. 90. 31 Greenl. Ev. § 566; 2 Whart. Ev. §§ 1264-65; Medlin v. Platte County, 8 Mo. 239 (1843). • Armory v. Delamirie, 1 Sm. L. C. 642-45, cases; 2 Best, Ev. §§ 411-14; Broom, Max. 938; 1 Greenl. Ev. § 37. • Knapp v. Edwards, 57 Wis. 196 (1883), Lyon, J. • Peck v. Clark, 142 Mass. 440 (1886). A natural water-course may be created by the flow of surface water.' Mere surface drainage over one tract of land to another, through a ditch, does not constitute a watercourse.8 Water-mark. High and low watermarks, referred to as boundaries, mean the place to which the water ordinarily ascends or descends.9 Where the tide ebbs and flows, the line of high water is marked by the periodical flow of the tide, excluding the advance of waters above this mark by winds and storms, and by freshets or floods; and the line of low water-mark is the furthest receding point of ebb and flow. 10 13 Kent, 427-32; Angell, Water-Cour. § 5; 13 R. I. 614. 2 Luther v. Winnisimmet Co., 9 Cush. 174 (1851), Bigelow, J. • Jeffers v. Jeffers, 107 N. Y. 651 (1887). Angell, Water-Cour. § 4; 26 Cent. Law J. 26-31 (1888), cases. • Weis v. City of Madison, 75 Ind. 253 (1881), cases; 27 id. 556: 37 id. 228; 41 id. 320; 30 Conn. 180; 75 Ind. 253; 25 Kan. 210; 67 Me. 356; 12 N. J. E. 280; 16 Νον. 317; 10 Oreg. 76; 37 Wis. 226. Pyle v. Richards, 17 Neb. 182 (1885), cases. Kelly v. Dunning, 39 N. J. E. 4S3 (1885), cases. • Stanchfield v. Newton, 142 Mass. 110, 116 (1886). • Gerrish v. Proprietors, 26 Me. 395-96 (1847), cases, Shepley, J.; 113 Mass. 238; 60 Pa. 339. 10 Howard v. Ingersoll, 13 How. 423, 417 (1851), Nelson, J.; Houghton v. Chicago, &c. R. Co., 47 Iowa, 372 (1877). Where streets had been dedicated as terminating at the Hudson River, and, afterward, the bed in front below high water-mark was filled in by legislative authority and the land so made conveyed by the State to the defendants, who had also succeeded to the title of the original owner and dedicator, it was held that the title to the filled-in land was not affected by the dedication, that the streets terminated at the former high water-mark.¹ See BEACH. Water-power. The fall in a stream when in its natural state, as it passes through one's land, or along the boundary of it; the difference of level between the surface where the stream first touches his land, and the surface where it leaves it.2 See further AQUA; BOUNDARY; COMMERCE; DRAIN; MILL; NAVIGABLE; PROPERTY, Qualified; RIPARIAN; RIVER; SURFACE; TAKE, 8; VESSEL; WELL, 1.

To leap; to bound; to jump. The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. Philips. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot. And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. Dryden. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert. Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. Otway. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning. To shoot up, out, or forth; to come to the light; to begin to appear; to emerge; as a plant from its seed, as streams from their source, and the like; -often followed by up, forth, or out. Till well nigh the day began to spring. Chaucer. To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth. Job xxxviii. 27. Do not blast my springing hopes. Rowe. O, spring to light; auspicious Babe, be born. Pope. To issue or proceed, as from a parent or ancestor; to result, as from a cause, motive, reason, or principle. [They found] new hope to spring Out of despair, joy, but with fear yet linked. Milton. To grow; to prosper. What makes all this, but Jupiter the king, At whose command we perish, and we spring Dryden. To spring at, to leap toward; to attempt to reach by a leap. -- To spring forth, to leap out; to rush out. -- To spring in, to rush in; to enter with a leap or in haste. -- To spring on or upon, to leap on; to rush on with haste or violence; to assault.

To cause to spring up; to start or rouse, as game; to cause to rise from the earth, or from a covert; as, to spring a pheasant. To produce or disclose suddenly or unexpectedly. She starts, and leaves her bed, amd springs a light. Dryden. The friends to the cause sprang a new project. Swift. To cause to explode; as, to spring a mine. To crack or split; to bend or strain so as to weaken; as, to spring a mast or a yard. To cause to close suddenly, as the parts of a trap operated by a spring; as, to spring a trap. To bend by force, as something stiff or strong; to force or put by bending, as a beam into its sockets, and allowing it to straighten when in place; -- often with in, out, etc.; as, to spring in a slat or a bar. To pass over by leaping; as, to spring a fence. To spring a butt (Naut.), to loosen the end of a plank in a ship's bottom. -- To spring a leak (Naut.), to begin to leak. -- To spring an arch (Arch.), to build an arch; -- a common term among masons; as, to spring an arcg over a lintel. -- To spring a rattle, to cause a rattle to sound. See Watchman's rattle, under Watchman. -- To spring the luff (Naut.), to ease the helm, and sail nearer to the wind than before; -- said of a vessel. Mar. Dict. -- To spring a mast or spar (Naut.), to strain it so that it is unserviceable.

A leap; a bound; a jump. The prisoner, with a spring, from prison broke. Dryden. A flying back; the resilience of a body recovering its former state by elasticity; as, the spring of a bow. Elastic power or force. Heavens! what a spring was in his arm! Dryden. An elastic body of any kind, as steel, India rubber, tough wood, or compressed air, used for various mechanical purposes, as receiving and imparting power, diminishing concussion, regulating motion, measuring weight or other force. Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain. "All my springs are in thee." Ps. lxxxvii. 7. "A secret spring of spiritual joy." Bentley. "The sacred spring whence and honor streams." red rose of the House of Lancaster. Sir J. Davies. Any active power; that by which action, or motion, is produced or propagated; cause; origin; motive. Our author shuns by vulgar springs to move The hero's glory, or the virgin's love. Pope. That which springs, or is originated, from a source; as: (a) A race; lineage. [Obs.] Chapman. A youth; a springal. [Obs.] Spenser. A shoot; a plant; a young tree; also, a grove of trees; woodland. [Obs.] Spenser. Milton. That which causes one to spring; specifically, a lively tune. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. The season of the year when plants begin to vegetate and grow; the vernal season, usually comprehending the months of March, April, and May, in the middle latitudes north of the equator. "The green lap of the new-come spring." Shak. The time of growth and progress; early portion; first stage. "The spring of the day." 1 Sam. ix. 26. O how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day. Shak. A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely. A line led from a vessel's quarter to her cable so that by tightening or slacking it she can be made to lie in any desired position; a line led diagonally from the bow or stern of a vessel to some point upon the wharf to which she is moored. Air spring, Boiling spring, etc. See under Air, Boiling, etc. -- Spring back (Bookbinding), a back with a curved piece of thin sheet iron or of stiff pasteboard fastened to the inside, the effect of which is to make the leaves of a book thus bound (as a ledger or other account or blank book) spring up and lie flat. -- Spring balance, a contrivance for measuring weight or force by the elasticity of a spiral spring of steel. -- Spring beam, a beam that supports the side of a paddle box. See Paddle beam, under Paddle, n. -- Spring beauty. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Claytonia, delicate herbs with somewhat fleshy leaves and pretty blossoms, appearing in springtime. (b) (Zoöl.) A small, elegant American butterfly (Erora læta) which appears in spring. The hind wings of the male are brown, bordered with deep blue; those of the female are mostly blue. -- Spring bed, a mattress, under bed, or bed bottom, in which springs, as of metal, are employed to give the required elasticity. -- Spring beetle (Zoöl.), a snapping beetle; an elater. -- Spring box, the box or barrel in a watch, or other piece of mechanism, in which the spring is contained. -- Spring fly (Zoöl.), a caddice fly; -- so called because it appears in the spring. -- Spring grass (Bot.), a vernal grass. See under Vernal. -- Spring gun, a firearm disharged by a spring, when this is trodden upon or is otherwise moved. -- Spring hook (Locomotive Engines), one of the hooks which fix the driving-wheel spring to the frame. -- Spring latch, a latch that fastens with a spring.

To spend the springtime somewhere.

To move or burst forth. | To move or burst forth. | To appear. | To move or burst forth. | To grow, to sprout. | To move or burst forth. | To grow, to sprout. | To mature. | To move or burst forth. | To arise, to come into existence. | To move or burst forth. | To enliven. | To move or burst forth. | To move with great speed and energy. | To move or burst forth. | To be born, descend, or originate from | To move or burst forth. | To rise in social position or military rank, to be promoted. | To cause to spring (all senses). | To cause to spring (all senses). | To cause to work or open by sudden application of pressure. | To leap over. | To breed with, to impregnate. | To wet, to moisten. | To burst into pieces, to explode, to shatter. | To go off. | To crack. | To come upon and flush out. | To catch in an illegal act or compromising position. | To begin. | To put bad money into circulation. | To tell, to share. | To free from imprisonment, especially by facilitating an illegal escape. | To be free of imprisonment, especially by illegal escape. | To build, to form the initial curve of. | To extend, to curve. | To turn a vessel using a spring attached to its anchor cable. | To pay or spend a certain sum, to yield. | To raise an offered price. | Alternative form of sprain. | Alternative form of strain. | To act as a spring: to strongly rebound. | To equip with springs, especially (of vehicles) to equip with a suspension. | to inspire, to motivate. | To deform owing to excessive pressure, to become warped; to intentionally deform in order to position and then straighten in place. | To swell with milk or pregnancy. | To sound, to play. | To find or get enough food during springtime.