Spring \Spring\, v. i. [imp. Sprangor Sprung; p. p. Sprung; p. pr. & vb. n. Springing.]

[AS. springan; akin to D. & G. springen, OS. & OHG. springan, Icel. & Sw. springa, Dan. springe; cf. Gr. ? to hasten. Cf. Springe, Sprinkle.]

1. To leap; to bound; to jump.

The mountain stag that springs From height to height, and bounds along the plains. --Philips.

2. To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.

And sudden light Sprung through the vaulted roof. --Dryden.

3. To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.

Watchful as fowlers when their game will spring. --Otway.

4. To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.

5. To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in seasoning.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Springing \Spring"ing\, n.

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

2. Growth; increase; also, that which springs up; a shoot; a plant.

Thou blessest the springing thereof. --Ps. lxv. 10.

Springing line of an arch (Arch.), the horizontal line drawn through the junction of the vertical face of the impost with the curve of the intrados; -- called also spring of an arch.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Use \Use\, n. [OE. us use, usage, L. usus, from uti, p. p. usus, to use. See Use, v. t.]

1. The act of employing anything, or of applying it to one's service; the state of being so employed or applied; application; employment; conversion to some purpose; as, the use of a pen in writing; his machines are in general use.

Books can never teach the use of books. --Bacon.

This Davy serves you for good uses. --Shak.

When he framed All things to man's delightful use. --Milton.

2. Occasion or need to employ; necessity; as, to have no further use for a book. --Shak.

3. Yielding of service; advantage derived; capability of being used; usefulness; utility.

God made two great lights, great for their use To man. --Milton.

'T is use alone that sanctifies expense. --Pope.

4. Continued or repeated practice; customary employment; usage; custom; manner; habit.

Let later age that noble use envy. --Spenser.

How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! --Shak.

5. Common occurrence; ordinary experience. [R.]

O C[ae]sar! these things are beyond all use. --Shak.

6. (Eccl.) The special form of ritual adopted for use in any diocese; as, the Sarum, or Canterbury, use; the Hereford use; the York use; the Roman use; etc.

From henceforth all the whole realm shall have but one use. --Pref. to Book of Common Prayer.

7. The premium paid for the possession and employment of borrowed money; interest; usury. [Obs.]

Thou art more obliged to pay duty and tribute, use and principal, to him. --Jer. Taylor.

8. [In this sense probably a corruption of OF. oes, fr. L. opus need, business, employment, work. Cf. Operate.]

(Law) The benefit or profit of lands and tenements. Use imports a trust and confidence reposed in a man for the holding of lands. He to whose use or benefit the trust is intended shall enjoy the profits. An estate is granted and limited to A for the use of B.

9. (Forging) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.

Contingent, or Springing, use (Law), a use to come into operation on a future uncertain event.

In use.
   (a) In employment; in customary practice observance.
   (b) In heat; -- said especially of mares. --J. H. Walsh.

Of no use, useless; of no advantage.

Of use, useful; of advantage; profitable.

Out of use, not in employment.

Resulting use (Law), a use, which, being limited by the deed, expires or can not vest, and results or returns to him who raised it, after such expiration.

Secondary, or Shifting, use, a use which, though executed, may change from one to another by circumstances. --Blackstone.

Statute of uses (Eng. Law), the stat. 27 Henry VIII., cap. 10, which transfers uses into possession, or which unites the use and possession.

To make use of, To put to use, to employ; to derive service from; to use.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)