To haunt, as a spright.

Full of spirit or of life; spirited; earnest; vivacious; lively; brisk; nimble; gay.

Destitute of life; dull; sluggish.

The quality or state of being sprightly; liveliness; life; briskness; vigor; activity; gayety; vivacity.

Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance.

The pintail duck; -- called also sprig, and spreet-tail. The sharp-tailed grouse.

A leap; a bound; a jump.

An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.

An active, springy young man.

An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.

A South African gazelle (Gazella euchore) noted for its graceful form and swiftness, and for its peculiar habit of springing lightly and suddenly into the air. It has a white dorsal stripe, expanding into a broad patch of white on the rump and tail. Called also springer.

To sprinkle; to scatter.

One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who rouses game.

A kind of lameness in a horse. See Stringhalt.

A fountain or source.

The state or quality of being springy.

The act or process of one who, or that which, springs.

A springe.

A little spring.

Any one of numerous species of small apterous insects belonging to the order Thysanura. They have two elastic caudal stylets which can be bent under the abdomen and then suddenly extended like a spring, thus enabling them to leap to a considerable distance. See Collembola, and Podura.

The time of spring; springtime.

The season of spring; springtide.

Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step.

A small quantity scattered, or sparsely distributed; a sprinkling.

One who sprinkles.

The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles.

The act of sprinting; a run of a short distance at full speed.

One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter.

A small boom, pole, or spar, which crosses the sail of a boat diagonally from the mast to the upper aftmost corner, which it is used to extend and elevate.

A spirit; a soul; a shade; also, an apparition. See Spright.

See Sprightful, Sprightfully, Sprightliness, Sprightly, etc.

A sail extended by a sprit. A sail formerly hung under the bowsprit, from the spritsail yard.

A tooth or projection, as on the periphery of a wheel, shaped so as to engage with a chain. A sprocket wheel.

A salmon in its second year.

Sprung.

The shoot of a plant; a shoot from the seed, from the stump, or from the root or tuber, of a plant or tree; more rarely, a shoot from the stem of a plant, or the end of a branch.

To dress one's self with affected neatness; as, to spruce up.

Strictly, the hole through which melted metal is poured into the gate, and thence into the mold. The waste piece of metal cast in this hole; hence, dross.

To make smart.

Said of a spar that has been cracked or strained.

Active; lively; vigorous.

In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully.

Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.

A sharp, narrow spade, usually with a long handle, used by farmers for digging up large-rooted weeds; a similarly shaped implement used for various purposes.

See Spew.

See Spulzie.

See Spook.

One employed to inspect yarn, to see that it is well spun, and fit for the loom.

Plunder, or booty.

To froth; to foam.

Spumous.

The state of being foamy; frothiness.

Resembling froth or foam; foaming.

Spumous; frothy.

Producing foam.

The quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.

Consisting of, containing, or covered with, froth, scum, or foam; frothy; foamy.

imp. p. p. of Spin.

A sponge.

Wood that readily takes fire; touchwood; also, a kind of tinder made from a species of fungus; punk; amadou.

To spur on one's horse; to travel with great expedition; to hasten; hence, to press forward in any pursuit.

A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings.

Any one of several species of handsome marine gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur.

Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings.

To gall or wound with a spur.

Any plant of the genus Euphorbia. See Euphorbia.

Any euphorbiaceous plant.

A purging.

Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; counterfeit; false; adulterate.

Having no spurs.

A tern.

The line which forms the communication between the steering wheel and the telltale.

A kick; a blow with the foot.

A channel at the end of a deck to restrain the water.

One who spurns.

Wearing spurs; furnished with a spur or spurs; having shoots like spurs.

One who spurs.

See Spurry.

One whose occupation is to make spurs.

An annual herb (Spergula arvensis) with whorled filiform leaves, sometimes grown in Europe for fodder.

To make a sudden and violent exertion, as in an emergency.

To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner.

A bridle path.

An annular reenforce, to strengthen a place where a hole is made.

The act of spitting; expectoration.

Inclined to spit; spitting much.

To dispute; to discuss.

Moist matter thrown out in small detached particles; also, confused and hasty speech.

One who sputters.

That which is expectorated; a salival discharge; spittle; saliva.

One who keeps a constant watch of the conduct of others.

A boat sent to make discoveries and bring intelligence.

A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

Act or business of spying.

See Pinnace, n., 1 (a).

To fall plump; to strike at one dash, or with a heavy stroke.

A young chicken before it is fully fledged.

To crush; to quash; to squash.

Thick; fat; heavy.

A scuffle; a wrangle; a brawl.

One who squabbles; a contentious person; a brawler.

Short and thick; sqabbish.

A heron (Ardea comata) found in Asia, Northern Africa, and Southern Europe.

Sloppy mud.

Primarily, a square; hence, a square body of troops; a body of troops drawn up in a square.

Formed into squadrons, or squares.

To throw sticks at cocks; to throw anything about awkwardly or irregularly.

Squeamish.

The suborder of elasmobranch fishes which comprises the sharks.

Dirty through neglect; foul; filthy; extremely dirty.

The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.

In a squalid manner.

Quality or state of being squalid.

A loud scream; a harsh cry.

One who squalls; a screamer.

Abounding with squalls; disturbed often with sudden and violent gusts of wind; gusty; as, squally weather.

A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their teeth are serrated, like a shark's.

Pertaining to Squalodon.

Like or pertaining to a shark or sharks.

Squalidness; foulness; filthiness; squalidity.