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Show SP SP He'ran, he leapt into a flaod There fpratol'd a while, and fearce got out All cover'd o'er with flime "sray and am already ploughing up fome, fencing others Saife 7. /o [of the fame race with /pri _and fprout.] . % The extremity ofa branch "% And to the light lift up their drooping head Hubberd's Tale Thus droops this lofty pine, and hangs his fprays 3 Thus Eleanor's pride dies in her younger days Sbu(‘bl/";:;‘n‘f The wind that whiftles through the fpray Maintains the confort of the fong ‘And hidden birds, with native lays The golden fleep prolong %40 igy Dryden 18 1 Arbuthsnot. %5 SPREAD. w. 4. [rpnedan, Sax. /prey den, Dutch. "% To extend; to expand; to make to co " ver or fill a larger {pace than before ' He bought a field where he had fprea his tent Gene xxxiii Rizpah fpread fackcloth for her upon the rock Faire attendants the 2 Sam. xxi "The fheets and bedding of the man of men Within a cabin of the hollow keele {8pred and made foft Chapman Make the trees more tall, more fpread, and mor sz hafty than they ufe to be. Bacon's Natural Hiftory w Silver fpread into plates is brought from Tarfhifh Fero x . Shall funeral eloquence her colours j}rem? "" And featter rofes on the wealthy deéad Young . To cover by extenfion Her cheeks their frefhnefs lofe and wonted grace __And an unufual palenefs [preads her face. Granw 1) .. To cover over The workman melteth a graven image, and th et Oldfmith fpreadeth it over with gold. Ifaiab, xl. 19 Th B To ftretch3 to extend Shake[peare Hearofe from knecling, with his hands fpread u " to heaven, and he blefled the congregation 1 Kings, ville §4 The ftately trees faft [pread their branches Deep in a rich alcove the prince was laid o« Faft by his fide Pififtratus lay fpread Milton Pope i+ To publifh ; to divulge ; to difleminate They, when departed, /pread abroad his fame i all that country Matthew, ix. 31 # To emit as efluvia or emanations diffufe t Their courfe thro' thickeft conflellations held s They fbread their bane Milton itfelf To extend or expan Can any underftand the [preadings of the clouds J or the noife of his tabernacle Fob, xxxvie 29 The princes of Germany had but a dull fear o )~ the greatnefs of Spain, upon a genera apprehen fion only of theirfpreading and ambitious defigns Bacon Plants, if they Jpread much, are feldom tall Bacon Great Pan, who wont to chafe the fair And lov'd the Jpreading oak, was there. Add, Cato Thg valley opened at the farther end, [preadin forth into an immenfe ogean SEREAD. 4./ [from the verb. L. Extent; compafs Dutch. yppenan Sprinkled to fprinkle Saxo Obfolete ; jprengen O lips, that kifs'd that hand with my tears fprent Sidney Ser1G. 2 fo [ y/fbrig, Welth ; fo Dawies but it is probably of the fame race wit Jpring. A {mall branch; a f{pray The fubftance is true ivy ; after it is taken down the friends of the family are defirous to have fom Jprig to keep Bacon Our chilling climate hardly bear A [prig of bays in fifty years While ev'ry fool his claim alleges As if it grew in common hedges Seri Chryfal Sawift n. / In perpendicular fiffures, chryftal is found i form of an hexangular column, adhering at one en to the ftone, and near the other leffening gradually till it terminates in a point: this is called by lapidaries fprig oxroc chryflal Woodaward SPr1°GGY. adj. [from fprig.] Full of fmal branches SPRIGHT #. / Jpiritus, Latin [contraltio of fpirit It was anciently writte Jprete or Jpryte 5 and Jpirit, as now written, was long confidered in verfe as monofyllable : this word fhould therefor be fpelled /prite, and its derivative Jpritely, fpriteful; but cuftom has deter 1. Spirit ; fhade ; foul 5 incorporeal agent She doth difpla The gate with pearls and rubies rickly dight Through which her words fo wife do make thei way To bear the meflage of her fpright Spenfer Forth he called out of deep darknefs drea Legions of [prights, the which, like little flie In age his equal, on a fplendid bed 9SPREAD, @, 7 If it be a miftake, I defire I may not be accufe for a fpreader of falfe news Savift mined otherwife. Spread o'er the filver waves thy golden hair 2. Publither ; divulger ; difleminator ypnengan /}V{l,inds raife fome of the falt with the fpray D Bacon By conforming ourfelves, we fhould be Jpreader of a worfe infe@ion than any we are likely to dra from papifts, by our conformity with them in ceremonies Hooker SPRENT. part. [from fprene The foam of the fea, commeonly writte No flower hath that [pread of the woodbind SPREA'DER, 7. /0 [from Jpread. 1. One that {preads Come prth afrefh out of their late difmay hi Addifon 2. Expanfion of parts At fight whereof each bird that fits on [pray, And every beaft that to his den was fled SP " dddifen Thave got a fine fpread of improveable lands Flutt'ring about his ever damned head Await whereto their fervice he applies. Fa, Queen While with heav'nly charity fhe fpoke A {treaming blaze the filent fhadows broke ‘The birds obfcene to forefts wing'd their flight And gaping graves receiv'd the guilty /pright. Dry Of thefe am I who thy proteétion claim Pope A watchful [prite, and Ariel is my name 2. Walking {pirit; apparition The ideas of goblins and Jfprights have no mor to do with darknefs than light ; yet let but a foolit maid inculcate thefe often on the mind of a child poflibly he fhall never be able to feparate the Locke again 3. Power which give cheerfulnefs or cou rage O chaftity ! the chief of heav'nly lights Which mak'ft us moft immortal fhape to wear Hold thou my heart, eftablith thou my fprights To only thee my conftant courfe I bear Till fpotlefs foul unto thy bofom fly Such life to lead, fuch death I vow to die 4. An arrow Not in ufe Sidney 70 SPRIGHT. @.a A ludicrous ufe To haunt as a {pright 1 am Jprighted with a fool Seri'GHTFUL adj Lively; brifk Shakefp. Cymbeline [ fprigh and full. gay; vigorous The fpirit of the time fhall teach me fpeed -Spoke like a fprightful noble gentleman. Shak Steeds [prightful as the light Cowley Happy my eyes when they behold thy face My heavy heart will leave its doleful beatin At fight of thee, and bound with Jprightful joys Otway. SPRUGHTFULLY adv. [from jprightful. Brifkly; vigoroufly Norfolk, fprightfully and bold Stays but the fummons of the appellant's trumper Shakefpeare. SPrRI'GHTLESS. adj. [from fpright.] Dull enervated; fluggith Are you grow Benumb'd with fear, or virtue's fprightlefs cold Cwu[c_y SPRI‘GHTLINESS #. /. [from Sprightly Livelinefs ; brifknefs ; vigour vivacity gaiety The foul is clogged when fhe a&s in conjunéio with a companion fo heavy ; but, in dreams, obferv with what a fprightlinefs and alacrity does fhe exer herfelf Addifon Ser1‘cHTLY. adj. [from fpright. brifk ; lively vigorous cious Produc the wine.tha make Gay airy viva us bold And fprightly wit and love infpires Dryden When now the [prightly trumpet, from afar Had giv'n the fignal of appreaching war. Dryder Each morn they wak'd me with a fprightly lay Of opening heav'n they fung, and gladfome day Priore The fprightly Sylvia trips along the green She runs, but hopes fhe does not run unfeen. Pope 7o SPRING.v. . preterite /prung or [prang anciently/})rafl part. /prang [rpmn Zan, Sax. /pringen, Dutch. 1. To arife out of the ground, and grow by vegetative power All bleft fecrets All you unpublifh'd virtues of the earth Spring with my tears; be aidant and rémediat In the good man's diftrefs Shake[peare To his mufick plants and fAower Ever fprang; as fun and fhower There had made a lafting {pring T fatisf th defolat ground Sh. Hen. VI an cauf th bud of the tender herb to fpring forth Toby xxxviii. 27 Qthe felt on goo ground, and did yield\ frui that [prang up and increafed Mark, iv. 8 "Tell me, in what happy field The thittle fprings, to which the lily yields ? Pope 2. To begin to grow That the nipples fthould be made with fuch per forations as to admit paffage to the milk whe drawn, otherwife to retain it; and the teeth o the young not [prung, are effets of providence Rfl_y 3. To proceed as from feed Ye fhall eat this year fuch things as grow o themfelves ; and in the fecond year that whic Jpringeth of the fame 2 Kings Much more good of fin fhall fpring Milton 4. To come into exiftence; to iffue forth Hadft thou fway'd as kings fhould do Giving no ground unto the houfe of ¥ork They never then had /prung like fammer.fijes We had in ufe for fea fight fhott arrows calle Jprights, without any other heads fave wood fharp Shakefpeare Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips i ened 5 which were difcharged out of mufkets, an would pierce through the fides of fhips where And cach warm wifh /prings mutual from the heart bullet would aot Bacow's Natural Hiffory part Pope 5. Te |