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SPRINGING

\spɹˈɪŋɪŋ], \spɹˈɪŋɪŋ], \s_p_ɹ_ˈɪ_ŋ_ɪ_ŋ]\

Definitions of SPRINGING

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

Act or process of leaping; growth; increase; the impost, or point at which an arch unites with its support.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

Gushing from, as a spring.
The act or process of leaping, issuing, or proceeding; growth; in arch., the first course of stone's of the arch resting on the side walls.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

n. Act of arising, issuing, or proceeding ; growth ; increase; leaping; bounding:- in architecture, the impost or point at which the arch rises from its support.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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